Wade Everson caught this black-tailed shark while fishing on the flats recently. Have you been fishing lately? Things on the flats are really getting mixed up.

With the oil still spilling out in the Gulf of Mexico and onto the whitest beaches in the world and marsh lands, even the sharks are getting mixed up. As Wade Everson and some of his fishing buddies were fishing the flats, he caught this long-nosed, black-tailed shark. The shark took the lines and bait off of two other rods before Everson finally landed it from the flats in north Florida or South Georgia.

Now Wade didn't tell this, and no good fisherman tells where he catches fish, but in an ice chest next to the shark ice chest was a box of Spring Creek jack fish.

He did mention something about having a jack in its mouth when they finally grabbed the shark by the tail and lifted it into the boat.

There was some mention of warning folks not to be swimming, or dangling their toes in the waters of the creek, or on the flats. You never know what might be lurking in the oily and nonoily waters. On the 35th anniversary of the movie, Jaws, it kept a lot of folks out of the Gulf for awhile.

It has been told that the shark meat is almost as delicious as the jack fish.

That is this fish tale, and that is how it is.