Eagle rays and gummy sharks - PhD studies help
hey everyone i am currently helping a friend with the his phd, he is studying chimeras from new zeland, eagle rays and gummy sharks, i am basically just helping him catch the fish for it, he already has the chimeras he needs and now he just needs to some eagle rays and gummy sharks, preferabbly small ones he can keep live or just any for general study, we have a 4wd a big live well tank and any gear we need, so i was just wondering were are the best spots for everything that are about a day trip away? i ussauyl get all my eagles of the beaches or rotto and gummys of city beach is there any other places that are a bit more reliable though? and also any good areas for little ones? i will be mainly free diving if in the day to catch live samples if i can, ( another phd student coming and he is doing shovel noses and banjo sharks) so yeah any tips on areas?
gibbs
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Date Joined: 20/04/11
Garden Island!
Have you got access to a boat?
I sat on the northern tip of Garden Island last Wednesday between 5:30pm and 10pm and caught 2 eagle rays (ANNOYING), 1 small Gummy and 2 PJ's. Almost every time i go to this spot i catch atleast 1 ray or see someone else pull 1 up.
Rig
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Date Joined: 27/12/06
gummys
hard to come by gummy's consistantly. I think a few have been caught in the sound recently but out of boats
Jamos Damokos
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Date Joined: 11/08/11
Put in the hours at city...
Put in the hours at city... caught gummys and monster shovelnose from there in years past. D9 in the sound is easy to get rays... thompsons bay rotto also.
Twiddling my thumbs with velvet gloves on.
Pob
Posts: 356
Date Joined: 13/10/10
I have been getting heaps of
I have been getting heaps of small to medium sized eagle rays on the beach on the left of the road down to Woodmans point, mainly during the afternoon, but always catch a few when I take the kids down there!
alexangler
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Date Joined: 24/12/10
any beach in busso has good
any beach in busso has good numbers of eagle rays
alex
H.S. Chan
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Date Joined: 04/01/09
Go to kwinana jetty for easy
Go to kwinana jetty for easy eagle catches. i've done 12 in one night there... though it wasnt what I wanted, and the sizes there werent huge, sounds like they might be the size useful to you. Shovels, go south beach off the rock groyne near that restaurant in the carpark. Banjos and fiddlers... pretty much the areas with heavy weed beds or at least nearby but they stray randomly as well. Can be found pinnaroo, esheds, mindarie... Gummys I cant speak for.
Leemo
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Date Joined: 22/02/07
Yanchep is chokkas full of
Yanchep is chokkas full of em!
bludgin' since 94'
fishing fanatic
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Date Joined: 01/05/09
yeah we have a boat :) and i
yeah we have a boat :) and i might have to to try kwinnana jetty then ill let the guy know, i ussualy get banjos and fiddlers in busso a few 100m of shore when crabbing with nets and free diving, thanks heaps guys ill let him know and ill tell you guys how we ended up going :)
H.S. Chan
Posts: 587
Date Joined: 04/01/09
Just bring a box of squid and
Just bring a box of squid and hook to a tripple snell 6/0-8/0 octopus or octopus circles. they wont get away from that. rig the hooks at the bottom end, 1/2-1m leader to swivel and have a running clip for a 6oz is sinker. Perfect ray rig and they wont get away lol. Mind you this is shorebased. This is the rig I use and I only have ever lost one eagle ray due to itself wrapping my line around rocks on the way in. I'm always very addament on landing them as I want my damn rigs back haha.
Have fun and good luck.