[Mattedhead]

I've had a similar experience. I had a few nice flatties and a sheepshead on my belt while diving the local jetty. Vis was 5-7' and I was doing an aspetto between 2 rocks at 25'...the flounder which were previously dead begin kicking about and driving the sheepshead's spines into my rear, not wanting to spook the drum in front of me I restrain from swatting at my stringer, the drum spook as if they were shot out of a cannon...???...so I take the opportunity pull on my stringer, then I realize something is pulling back. I flinch pretty good and scare the $#!t out of the perpetrator only to get hammered by the tail of a fleeing 5-6' shark! I nearly crapped myself...he must have been there for a bit, all of the fish but one were mangled a bit. We got a kick out of it after the fact, but I am quite glad that this guy had the table manners of a Debutant.

Matt