Monday
May242010
May Slab of the Month Entry: Leopard Shark
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 12:00AM 
Graham Owen shows some out-of-the-box thinking with this yellow clouser fooled Malibu Beach Leopard. We can only imagine the post-battle jibber-jabber with the beach bum valley girls after deer-in-the-headlighting this scene.
Reader Comments (24)
EPIC. There's a new goal - shark on the fly.
Nice job Graham!! A great departure from the status quo
should grow large ,with all the food in the 2 legged food in the water
Big props! Thats a fine looking shark!!
Stellar stuff Graham, pretty cool !
Very sweet! As Brian noted, a nice change up from the typical that gets submitted for SOTM. Congrats Graham.
Brilliant!
Nice leopard shark on the fly!
A+ for originality, you've got my vote.
That a sweet fish! Congrats Graham.
Yeah Graham! Nice job man!
Now that's Punk Rock.
Nice - Jaguar shark would be epic though.
I'm way down. This is awesome Graham!!!
Very pretty fish. U have my vote.
Wow, that is a really cool fish! I'd still vote for that if it were a foot long! Really cool catch!
contest over...leopard shark rules.
Move on to June.
Thanks for all of the nice comments!!!
I can't put into words how exciting the take, fight and landing was. I caught and released the leopard shark last Thursday and today is the first day my arm isn't sore... what a blast!!! I have more pics on my website.
http://www.grahamowengallery.com/fishing/leopards-surf.html
Cheers,
Graham
Sick dude. That's a nice one. Congrats!!!
Beautiful fish. Wow.
Great Fish ! There's something you don't see every day.
Awesome, Graham. That is one sweet fish! Competition's over. This is your winner...
simply awesome Graham!
I was sitting next to Graham the night he caught those in Malibu at the Sierra Pacific Fly Fishers Club. They just also had a one fly tourny up in Santa Barbara the week before where they hooked over 40 of these things from the beach on flies. Really a cool freaking fishery down there. Nice work Graham.
BTW, he also ties flies like there is no tomorrow, sells them to movies and tv shows, etc. NOT someone you want to be showing off your tying skills next to...