First shark of the season

[The Mad Hughesy]

Howdy all, given its been a cooler start to October, i wasn't hopeful but we gave it a crack anyway to see if we could get some early season shark action and show the kids as well. we had a few runs with one hookup which ended in a 94cm model. was very skinny though, i would say that it isn't that old and hasn't had a chance to gorge itself on pine river mullet and other small fish. I hope to get back a few more times before Xmas now that i know they are around. 

Get stuck into them folks! not many better easily catchable sports fish available all across SEQ that compare! these things run hard, sometimes jump out of the water and are just alot of fun.

4000 sized reel, 20lbs braid, 60lbs wire trace and 7/0 circle hook, freshwater eel bought form Tackle world lawnton

[ellicat]

Nice start to the season. Better to try to make friends with them when they're young. haha

I wonder how many make it to adulthood and how many get eaten by their own kind etc.

Hope you get a chance to catch a few more this summer.

[The Mad Hughesy]

13 minutes ago, ellicat said:

Nice start to the season. Better to try to make friends with them when they're young. haha

I wonder how many make it to adulthood and how many get eaten by their own kind etc.

Hope you get a chance to catch a few more this summer.

i have heard of people using sharks this size as bait for bigger models. dog eat dog world out there

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Nice one Chris, I might give them a shot this weekend. 

[charlie.hans.fishing]

Good work Chris. 

I've been wanting to get onto my first bullie in the river since last summer. The closest I got was when I had hooked up for about 5 seconds and a big head shake/jump sawed right through 80lb leader. Maybe should've considered a wire trace, which i will this summer. 

 

[The Mad Hughesy]

36 minutes ago, TheCharliefisho said:

Good work Chris. 

I've been wanting to get onto my first bullie in the river since last summer. The closest I got was when I had hooked up for about 5 seconds and a big head shake/jump sawed right through 80lb leader. Maybe should've considered a wire trace, which i will this summer. 

 

just go for the halco premade trace. some people will say that the snap clip will bend but its not happened to me. go for the 20inch if you can. 60-80lbs is plenty

[charlie.hans.fishing]

58 minutes ago, christophagus said:

just go for the halco premade trace. some people will say that the snap clip will bend but its not happened to me. go for the 20inch if you can. 60-80lbs is plenty

Great thank you

[Hweebe]

Haven't targeted bull sharks in years, but used to head out to behind the old Oxley secondary school (western suburbs) and have great fun land based catching sharks.

[Junky]

Great fun. 

Good eating size too. 

[Bob9863]

Nice little fella. 

[kmcrosby78]

Nice work Chris, always good to get the first of the season.