South coast Noah's
Submitted by Chris fish on Fri, 2012-12-21 18:20
After recently moving to Albany I've been doing a heap of fishing and free diving but still made time to chase a few sharks.
Ive been trying to get a few small sharks to keep for tea but just can't get past the plague numbers of 2-2.5m ones!! I've been kayaking and balooning baits with good success, we have hooked 20+ sharks and landed a fair few in the last month and hooked a few monsters that are just to big to get in haha.
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always looking for a new challenge!!
Justo82
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Some bigguns there. Well
Some bigguns there. Well done.
meglodon
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that's a big 'un
some big nasty looking members of the grey coat brigade there
RAGBAG
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Bronzies
Well done Chris , some good looking sharks there mate . I'm going to have to make the effort and come down there for a fish .
Chris fish
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Wait till salmon season,
Wait till salmon season, instead of 3-4 hookups a day you could get 5-7 easy and land most of them if your back can take it hahaha. Would be good to see the club boys come down for a comp.
always looking for a new challenge!!
jettyrat
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Nice
Nice sharks. The long rod would have broken my back.
cudbfishn
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How do you like the
How do you like the poseidon? And is that a torium?
Chris fish
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The poseidon is awesome but
The poseidon is awesome but I will get a better shark rod later or get this one rebuilt with more guides at some stage and yeah these photos are with my big reel the torium 50 on it but mostly I use a Trinidad 30A with 40lb for these guys.
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southcity104
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well done
give'm hell!!!
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cuthbad
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Great fish there Chris, nice
Great fish there Chris, nice work!
soupster51
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Awesome
Some effort and skill goes into that. Hats off to ya.
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Lamby
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Cracking sharks, awesome
Cracking sharks, awesome
Snags
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Lovely looking sharks
Lovely looking sharks Chris!
Would you mind educating a novice and sharing your shark rig setup?
pudzz
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wheres
wheres the great white photo's youve been bragging about to ya mates up here in perth..?
Adam Gallash
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good work
Good work Chris, always enjoy having a look at your recent shark catches, some pretty good efforts there.
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Lidder85
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Some very solid sharks.
Some very solid sharks.
Markie
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awsome bro workin those guns
awsome bro workin those guns :)
A-SALT-WEAPON
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Well done
Well done boys. looks like awsome fun
Jorie
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chris mate
that rod you got in the top photos what weightt rating is that. doeant appear to be bending that much!?
Chris fish
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Cheers guys, these things
Cheers guys, these things are great fun to target and a real challenge and something that I suppose isn't everyone's thing but seeing these up close is awesome!!
Jorie this Poseidon rod is is very heavy!! I run full drag with 24kg line on it and can lean against it very heavily without even putting a massive bend in it so I would guess 20kg of pressure against it fairly easily. The other shimano Catana we use is a bit lighter and my custom overhead one is lighter again and only run 40lb on it.
always looking for a new challenge!!
Jorie
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yeah i thought that would
yeah i thought that would have been the case. i heaps wanna get into a decemt shark bout that size 2-2.5 metre tried a couple of time but no joy. would you reckomend overhead reels then spinning reels for these beasts??
Chris fish
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Overhead all the way for
Overhead all the way for line capacity. You need at least 100m of mono on top of braid because the stretch and abrasion resistance of mono help so much when you start going big. Also wind on leaders and 49strand wire are a must. It's taken me close to 2 years to get rigs and setup perfected and even now I still only land 50% of what I hook. Big sharks just push everything to its limit in the same way I imagine fishing for big game fish like marlin would. Very challenging and rewarding that's for sure.
always looking for a new challenge!!
Jorie
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okay sick would you run
okay sick would you run 200lb wire or this to small??
Chris fish
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I run 400lb wire usually but
I run 400lb wire usually but tonight we used 600lb 49strand and still got bitten off by a monster, some things are just not supposed to come in haha.
always looking for a new challenge!!
bronzey92
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yewww!
solid effort lads