Venomous1111
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does anyone know if you can get sharks in port macqurie area?
DO you mean fishing or for a aquarium?
does anyone know if you can get sharks in port macqurie area?
Very sad that this beautiful shark had to die, but lets be serious. People have to eat! ........
DO you mean fishing or for a aquarium?
lol fishing
id have to agree with this point , as a surfer as well living in a small town we had never had a shark attack , maybe due to the lack of crowds, maybe because there wasn't as many sharks i don't know but we recently had our first attack , not a biggie just got him on the foot but shook it around a fair bit and cut it up pretty bad people that looked at the bite mark said it was possibly a bull shark and that it only got him about 20m from the shore in a gutter running along the beachI can't help but think that now with more people surfing and sharks being protected that the incidence of attack may increase. Especially if young surfers these days do what we used .
ever tried eels as a bait for sharks ? my dad used to be a fisherman and he did black tip up in the clarence river with the long lines i remember he used to use pieces eel used to work pretty well for him although he used to trap eels as well and they had to be sold live so he used any that died as shark baitMate you'll catch sharks all up the NSW coast mainly bronze whalers on the beaches if fishing Land based (I catch them mainly as jewfish bycatch unless targeting big ones) big oily baits and don't forget your metal trace and mainly at night and a rising or high tide when fishing beaches.. If you have a boat a decent burly trail and big baits and you shouldn't be waiting to long before your reels start screaming.. I've caught a 2m shovel nose shark in the Hastings river when I was on my way up to schoolies a few years ago, caught it on my bream fishing gear ( 4lb braid 6lb leader) on a whole servo prawn, I've also got mates that live in the Fernbank area that have said they have been catching bullsharks up that way in the Hastings.. Your best bet is to join your local fishing club and ask around, I'm sure someone can point you in the right direction. If you want any tips PM me, I'm more then happy to give you tips on baits,rigs etc.
ever tried eels as a bait for sharks ? my dad used to be a fisherman and he did black tip up in the clarence river with the long lines i remember he used to use pieces eel used to work pretty well for him although he used to trap eels as well and they had to be sold live so he used any that died as shark bait
yea i wasn't real sure if he just used them because he had a good supply of them ( with them dying in the big tub thing we kept them in waiting to be picked up and sold) but i remember going with him one morning and we had to keep going back to the wharf and getting rid of them because just about every line was full and there wasn't a great deal of room in the boat i was about 8 or 9 at the time i loved it only little sharks though no big ones
big cat fish up their to worth catching them just for the fun of it
funny you say that we lived at iluka for a while and he put some lines just the other side of the break wall and caught 2 massive eels on it i cant remember the name of them but they were big about 2.5 ,3m as you said they were silver and kinda had a body like a woma more of a high and skinny shaped body instead of round if you know what i mean and they had kind of a snout but yea eels a big delicacy overseas they go crazy for it and pay big $$$ but the only catch is that they want to get them live and squirming so we had a big tub in our garage it stunk and the big ones die so bloody easy and the licence to do it isn't a real easy one to come by i remember my dad really didn't want to part with it when he sold up and got out of the businessHe would have come across some big eels especially long lining, my mates oldman used to do be a licensed fish trapper an has some photos of some mean looking big eels that are easily 2.5- 3m long and about 2ft wide. Apparently smoked eel isn't to bad on the table and is a delicacy overseas but there's no chance you'd me using it for anything other than shark bait.
Nice lilttle bronzie mate, I'm guessing you got it of the beach? We have been gettiing heaps of bronzies of the beach in Sydney, been targeting jewfish a few nights this week no luck with jews but **** loads of bronzies and decent tailor around the 60cm mark.
I'm going for a rock fishing session today so hopefully we gets some decent fish.
This is the last bronzie I caught and released when out in the boat. The 3metre was just an estimation, it was more 2.5metres
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funny you say that we lived at iluka for a while and he put some lines just the other side of the break wall and caught 2 massive eels on it i cant remember the name of them but they were big about 2.5 ,3m as you said they were silver and kinda had a body like a woma more of a high and skinny shaped body instead of round if you know what i mean and they had kind of a snout but yea eels a big delicacy overseas they go crazy for it and pay big $$$ but the only catch is that they want to get them live and squirming so we had a big tub in our garage it stunk and the big ones die so bloody easy and the licence to do it isn't a real easy one to come by i remember my dad really didn't want to part with it when he sold up and got out of the business
That's a nice catch, how long did it take you to bring it in ? wish I had a boat.. Mine were like 1m and 990. Was at Stockton beach usually get at least one. Been chasing the jewes the night we caught the two sharks we caught about 3-4 small ones had 2 rods with squid 2 with worms and 2 with pillys. Seem to like abit of everything forever catching salmon they get annoyying after awhile.
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just looked up hairtails on the net and they do look alot like what these where he only ever got the 2 that big , ive got pics around somewhere of them but there a printed photo so itll be a picture of a picture if i find them ill put them up , and yea theres big money in eels which is why people who have the licences don't like to sell them on to much but they are a hard one for people to sell on with them having to be alive at the time of sale and all the bigger sized eels die really easyI don't think what you caught was a eel but possibly another species of fish called a hairtail (Trichiurus lepturus) .. Considering that eel can go for $15+ per kg depending on the time of year and quality there would and still is some serious money to be made.
Aren't seals and sea lion better swimmers than Sharks???
ever seen the footage of the big white jumping up on to a rock ledge with a wave to get at the seals , them things have damn good dig to get their foodAren't seals and sea lion better swimmers than Sharks???
ever seen the footage of the big white jumping up on to a rock ledge with a wave to get at the seals , them things have damn good dig to get their food
Very sad that this beautiful shark had to die, but lets be serious. People have to eat! It was caught in a net and was dead when the fisherman found it, hardly there fault or wrong doing. Ever ate fish fingers? Because chances are if you have you`ve contributed to death of more than one sea creature that wasn`t the targeted species in order to satisfy your hunger.
And don`t get me wrong I`m not a shark hater, I am in awe of great white sharks. One of the most beautiful creatures on earth IMO.
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