Chompie the inflatable shark has graced Discovery’s headquarters in Silver Spring in recent weeks, and apparently it isn’t too far from home—WTOP reports that while not often seen, sharks do call the Chesapeake Bay home:

“This guy here’s a reporter from Washington, D.C.” Ide calls out, and admits to them he’s about to ask a “stupid” question. “You seen any sharks?”

If similar conversations with other watermen that day were any indicator, these young men would deliver blank stares, then talk about the rare shark they heard someone else talk about that one time in ’87. Or was it 2010?

“Oh yeah! We just got bites out of the crab pots, man. No bull****,” said Kelly Sullivan, based out of Middle River just east of Baltimore.

Sullivan went on to describe how his crew and he had been pulling pots up all month with massive, foot-wide bite marks that caved in the metal cages’ corners. Sullivan, wearing loose-fitting waterproof coveralls, surmised the perpetrator was a bull shark scavenging for either the fish bait, or the crabs they lured.

“We definitely thought about going shark fishing tomorrow,” he says.

Due to the bay’s low salinity levels, the only sharks that prowl the waters are bull sharks, though. The sharks have also made their way up the Potomac—two eight-foot bull sharks were trapped in 2010, and there’s record of them being spotted all the way back to the early 1900s.