sharking time

[brisbane_boy]

Well gday

Today i got up nice and early to go down to the brisbane river to catch my first shark. i got down there and got both my rods out trying to get some nice cat fish for shark bait.

within the first 2 casts i got 2 nice small cattys (dont normaly call cattys nice:lol: )

then i put one on my 100lb wire trace and 25lb main line and weighted and weighted and weighted . then about 2 hours later i was a little bit asleep sittin in my deck chair i heard my rod run . i opened my eyes and saw my rod going mad and got dragged into the water. so without thinking i jumped in after it then realised that im still moving out to the middle of the river and somthing real stong was dragin me so i quickly yanked the rod and broke the line and QUICKLY swam bak to the shore.

well now i was all wet and my reel needed some attension so i walked home lookin like an real idiot fully wet and muddy :P

So i then got home and my freind took us to get lunch then we were off to the jindalee boat ramp and i had a prawn out there as soon as it got a massive hit and then a real good run (i was holding my rod this time;) )

and with a good flight reeled in a 78cm bull shark :silly: :silly:

So at the end of the day i finaly got my fist ever shark :woohoo:

Cheers

Buddah [img size=435]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/ushark.jpg

[brisbane_boy]

mouth of the shark [img size=442]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/shark.jpg

[brisbane_boy]

78cm [img size=460]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/shark1-1b19bd22554992669d924e707cb2ad4d.jpg

[Angus]

Hahaha and on the prawn. Good work mate.

Angus

[MichaelJ]

congrats on the first shark did it fight good?

[brisbane_boy]

yer it had a good fight i thought it was a thready because it took the prawn. it had a few long runs in it at fist but then came in slowly

cheers

[kevinchen19870316]

wow....i love summer.

rays, catties and odd sharks....

[pinkey]

ahah nice one duncan about time.

So thats what was biting me off using prawns all those times .

Must of been freaky getting pulled into the depths..

[tomca]

Might have to target the sharks there. Been bitten off heaps while targeting bream. Still gotta work out how to deal with one in a kayak.:dry:

[brisbane_boy]

Yer i was bout 15m past the pilons tim and i coudent touch the bottom, probly a good thing duno wats down there .

yer tomca would put ap a decent fisht on a yak but i recon landing it would be the hard part:huh:

cheers BUDDAH

[tomca]

maybe I tie the anchor rope around his tail and paddle back to shore?? Any better ideas?

[pinkey]

just use a thick wire trace and fight him back to shore or if you wana eat him just give him a good whack on the head and if you have a bucket or box on your yak just wack him in there, unless its a biggun..

[ellicat]

brisbane_boy, If you're talking about the ramp at Jindalee, it's about 8 metres deep just out from the ramp. Give or take a couple of metres the river from Jindalee to Fig Tree varies between 5 and 15 metres.

[brisbane_boy]

Yer thanks ellicat felt pretty deep and the mud didnt feel to good between the toes :silly:

yer tomca i reccon it would be a bit of a challange gettin one on a yak . iv just got a cheap yak and it isnt to hard to capsize it lol if ur brave enought just get it in the yak and hit it ova the head like pinky said

cheers

Duncan

[flathead]

lol nice one dungcan that would have been freaky u should have fully losened ur drag and swam back to sure but i guess when ur been toed out into the river u dnt think straight

[waldo]

heehehe shame about missing the big run you dived in after. efforts like that deserve better results than bust offs. Glad you got a consolation prize later

[Schultzy]

Duncan,

The first one is always the hardest. You'll be dragging them in regularly now.

It is not unusual for the littlies in the river to pick up small baits. When we were doing stomach contents sampling we got lots of 1/0 bream hooks out of them. Must have been eating yabbies, prawns, etc, as they swam past the sunken wall, annoying the bream fishoes;)

I once got one of 85cm on the onion out of a mullet gut when we had run out of decent baits.

Also got one on a glass perch of about 4cm.

[Bommie]

well done:)

[brisbane_boy]

yer schultzy i was waitin for a catty to put on as bait and while i was waiting i thought ill just put a prawn on a wire trace and maby i can get another thready but lucky for me it was a shark

Cheers

Duncan

[fishyman]

you have now joined the \"lets jump in the river after, A = a shark or B = a rod\" club

[pinkey]

Hey I jumped in after my castnet once cos i let go of the rope, does that count!? .

[mackmauler]

I love these stories about jumpin in, i sounded the water past those pilons last wk and it was about 12m deep, but skiers tread water there all the time and you still got ya toes lol.

i may need some crew next wk for a 2 day offshore mission, if any of you guys want to have a shot at something other than bull sharks.

[rumrunner]

nice offer!

[pinkey]

Tempting rob! but ill be down at the tweed river catching bream while your pulling up all sorts of monsters from the depths.

[Tom B]

you have now joined the \"lets jump in the river after, A = a shark or B = a rod\" club

Im pretty sure option 'A' comes under the heading \"The crazy/insane club\" :laugh:

[reef_raider]

tomca wrote:

maybe I tie the anchor rope around his tail and paddle back to shore?? Any better ideas?

if its something you want to keep maybe invest in a little 30cm gaff... $7 from bcf

[MichaelJ]

at moreton i was in a boat and mukin round then a wave hit our boat from another 1 and my rod fell out of my hands into the water and i fell on the floor so i jumped in and got the rod from bout 2.5m deep right beside a dropoff into bout 20m lol