queensland Bribie Island 29/10/17 - No Sharks But A Nice Shovel

[The Mad Hughesy]

We hit the water on Sunday after a few weeks of not fishing at all (thanks rain!). Plan was to stay a few hours and be home and cleaned up before the “storm” hit

 

We only had two runs on freshwater eel, with one hookup.

 

With the Penn 850ssm drag locked up, and the line peeling off easily I knew we were in for a fight…. Every time we got her boat side, she would scream off for another 100m run. We did about 3 laps around the boat, passing the rod under the anchor a few times and after 30mins, the shovelnose was in the boat and we were spent. Circle hook came out easily, few pics and back in the water for a strong release. Very proud of my fiancé who fought it the whole way through like a champ, it was a dirty fight that’s for sure. I was hoping for a bull or whaler, but this wasn’t a bad runner-up prize. It measured 143cm

 

Later I checked the drag capabilities of the reel…on 6kg of max drag. No wonder it peeled line off easily. 40lb braid, 200lb wire trace and 12-0 circle hook with a 15cm slab of eel. Awesome fun!

 

[kmcrosby78]

Nice one Chris - fair bit of flake on that ........

[Panther]

Good size shovel nose @christophagus !

I've always had a soft spot for them. Looks like a white spot too if I am not mistaken - I have only caught common's down here in the Brisbane area.  

Certainly beats the 3 sting rays I managed in the pine on the weekend. 

[fishingnut]

Go further up the passage for bulls there’s heaps up there 

[The Mad Hughesy]

15 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Nice one Chris - fair bit of flake on that ........

certainly would have been a big feed!

[The Mad Hughesy]

8 hours ago, fishingnut said:

Go further up the passage for bulls there’s heaps up there 

any size to them? ive only caught small 1m bulls further down the passage.

[fishingnut]

Just up pat Donny brook where the camp are is there is a tiny patch of reef that produces the odd legal squire, bully’s love them! Got smoked by a monster there one night re rigged and got one that went 5foot 9 inches about 20 min later, use live bream as bait 

[The Mad Hughesy]

44 minutes ago, fishingnut said:

Just up pat Donny brook where the camp are is there is a tiny patch of reef that produces the odd legal squire, bully’s love them! Got smoked by a monster there one night re rigged and got one that went 5foot 9 inches about 20 min later, use live bream as bait 

thanks for the tip! im camping at Mission point in the coming months, might take a tld25 with me

[Drop Bear]

On 10/30/2017 at 12:19 PM, christophagus said:

It measured 143cm

Thats solid mate. Nice fish. Makes me want to target sharks more.

Thanks for the report and photos