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Sharks And The City

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fifis101

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My brother “Calhoun†and I headed down to Kangaroo Point at 10am yesterday morning and set ourselves up on the beach under the Story Bridge. By the time we got all of our rods rigged up and ready, it would have been about an hour after the full tide. Calhoun had brought some herring he’d caught in the Gold Coast canals the morning before, so we only had the dead bait. We had out three rods between us using some of the small herring whole, while cutting some of the bigger ones in half.

While these rods were out we decided to rig up our smaller setups and see how we’d go flicking a few lures. Cal chose a little hardbody, while I went with a small while plastic. He went to one side of the beach, with me heading to the other. A few casts in and I was on! It was a pretty casual take as I was only doing a slow retrieve along the bottom with no jerks at all. At first I just thought it was just bogging down in the sand but with a little head shake I set the hook and was on! It was a good fight on light gear with some serious head shakes and trying to keep it out of the fast moving current but after a few minutes I landed my first flattie on soft plastics.

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He went 55cm.

I gave Cal a whistle and he came running over. When he saw the fish he gave me one of those looks like “nice fish!.......you b@stard†and by this time a bit of an audience had congregated up behind the railing. We took a few snaps and popped him in the esky. After this Cal changed over to a similar white plastic and we both had few more casts without any luck.

It was about half an hour later where my two baited rods hadn’t even been touched and Cal had only had a couple of little hits, when one of mine raced off with the drag screaming! I gave it another 5 seconds, cranked up the drag and set the hook. He did not like this at all and took another 30m of line before slowing down. By this time he’d managed to get himself out into the fats moving current and was using this to his advantage. It was a great fight with heaps of heavy head shakes and a few more good runs but after a few minutes we got him to the shallows where Cal grabbed the trace and dragged him onto the beach. This was my first river bully.

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He went 84cm.

During the fight a couple of girls had shown interest and wondered over to see what was happening. You could imagine there faces when the little bully was pulled out of the water. One even said “I never actually believed that there were sharks in the riverâ€. We got a few photos and off with the tail.

It wasn’t long before another one of my rods went off at the same pace as the last but this was only short lived with my line somehow being cut even though I had a good 60cm trace. All good, I re-rigged and got it back out there. Another 15 or so minutes later my Cal’s rod starts screaming off like my two had. He waits a few seconds and drills the hook home. After a few minutes he has his first little bully in the shallows, I grab him by the tail and walk him up the beach. This is also Cal’s first bully.

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He went 74cm.

By this time a tourist had made his way over to have a little sticky beak. He just had a few curious questions, which I was glad to answer for him and he was on his way. We took a few photos and docked his tail. While this was happening I noticed that the little bully had two traces hanging out of his mouth. After closer inspection I found that this was in fact the trace I had lost only 15 minutes ago. The strange this was that there was about 3m of line still attached to the trace, so the thought bite-off may have just been a sharp rock.

We were both pretty happy with ourselves at this stage and were keen to hook up to a few more. We throw out the lines again and sat ready and waiting. It wasn’t long before Cal’s rod had something smaller hitting his bait. After a few minutes of this going on, he set the hook and drags in his first forktailed catfish.

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As funny as it sounds, we were pretty stoked about this as we hadn’t seen one of these before. We got a few pics in and send him on his way. Within a few minutes of redeploying his bait, he was on again to another cattie. This all happened while my 2 rods sat there lifeless but soon enough the catties found my lines and after about half an hour I had landed 3 of them for myself, these also being my first.

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So after this the action calmed down, with us only getting a few nibbles. While it was quiet, I went and cleaned the fish. One final surprise was that I found a set of gang hooks in the belly of my bully. They hadn’t seemed to cause any damage and definitely hadn’t put him off feeding. The then packed up and headed home at 3pm.

All in all it was a great little session with a great view of the city and bridge, 3 firsts for myself, 2 for Cal and a good feed of fish to take home.

samsteele115 Newbie

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That's excellent! I've always wanted to give that spot a go for bullies. Might have to. Sounds like a good place to start and try to get my first bully. Awesome flatty! Wasn't expecting that.

Cheers for the report

Do$tylz Newbie

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Ha.. so it was you guys I was watching from my office window. I was wondering how you guys went. I've fished there a few times and never caught a bullie so great to know they're there. That place is vicious for mozzies at night.

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