queensland sharkin ( small ships channel )

[madmullet]

This story is written on behalf of my mate Greg as I took him out for a last trip before he moved up north, so this trip was all about him.

When we got down to the boat ramp at 4.30 Saturday morning at fishermans island, we were greated with a spectacular sunrise and a glassed out estuary.

We intended on following my mate out in his boat, ( frank ) and fishing the chain banks and small ships channel. We arrived to our desenation and with in minuits we had approx four 4-5ft bullies circling the boat. We didn’t bother throwing a bait infront of those guys as I wanted something big to put the hurt on greg.

The gear I was running was a 37kg stand up rod, a penn international 80w spooled with 80lb stren, a 3ft piece of 600lb multi strand coated wire and a 16/0 tuna circle baited with a mullet.

It took about 45mins to 1 hr before we seen the shark I wanted. I picked up the bait and threw it in front of his face and with a quick thrash of his tail he opened up his mouth and took the bait. I threw the lever up on the reel and lent back slowly on the hook and bingo we were connected to a solid 9ft bull shark. I emedeotly handed the reel to greg as he was waiting with back brace and gimble on. The shark took a spectacular first run taking approx 100-120m of line of the reel before slowing. It was about a 45min tug-of-war before he started to give up. Apprx 10mins later he surended to us, brought him along side the boat, put the tail rope on him, got the hook out, took our photos and released him.

We had a talk about the fight, composed ourselves, got the gear ready again and headed back over to our spot. We had time for 1 more shark before calling it a day. I let greg try and hook the next shark.bust he was hiting them a bit to early. So we swap back and within minuits we were hooked up again. This time a smaller specimen of bull shark of about 6ft.With in 10 mins we had him beside the boat, pics taken and him released.

All in all what a top 6hrs out with 2 sharks caught and released. Who can complain about weather like we had on beautiful moreton bay….

Cheers kurt……..

[Young_fella]

you beauty!

[madmullet]

[Young_fella]

That is so cooool!!!!!!!!!!! That looks funnn as

[eg_vtec]

awsome stuff and great way to spend last fishing trip in bris! well done and a good friend you are

[madmullet]

[Young_fella]

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Pfft sharks dont look so scary, they dont even have any teeth. :whistle:

[madmullet]

lol young fella...... it looks that way doesnt it, but one thing is for sure i am not putting my hand down its moust to get the hook..........

[Young_fella]

I can't imagine the fight one of those would put up. Looks so awesome.

[madmullet]

ok emagine a legal spotty or schoolie 0n 10lb.... convert it into a shark on 80lb... it would be a similar fight

[Young_fella]

That'd be awesome. When do you need a decky again haha

[madmullet]

time will come young fella... how old are you again

[Young_fella]

20

[madmullet]

you recon you can hold an 80w and fight a shark without slipping overboard

[Young_fella]

I think i would have to watch how its done first. Probably not though haha. Maybe something a bit smaller would be the go for my first shark hahaha.

[madmullet]

ok not this weekend, but you choose between saturday or friday night for chaseing sharks

[Bommie]

full on, great stuff

[madmullet]

cheers

[madmullet]

you should be write younge fella

[kriso]

mate just out of interest im not try to accuse you of killing sharks but just wondering how well do these guys swimm off after the fight and being strapped to the boat etc? can you swimm them like other fish to get them going again?

[madmullet]

you sure can swim them to get the latic asid build up to go away.... it just a little trickier that say a billie or bream, cause you have to watch where you grab them cause they will bite... you should see my gunwell and trasom.... but a true fisherman will no wheater to swim a fish or not at the time anyway.....

i had i problem ever and that was up near tagalooma, i was using a tld 50 spooled with 30ld and after 2.5hrs of a fight up came a nurse.... we tried to release it after swimming her but she just sank, luckerly we ended up in 15ft of water and i dove into the water andput a noose around her pecteral fin and pulled her back up. we swam her for another 20mins before she gave a big kick to be released........

now since then i havent targeted game fish on light line cause of the tiring resion, better for them to gome in a bit green then knockin on deaths door step.........

[chaujern]

lol young fella...... it looks that way doesnt it, but one thing is for sure i am not putting my hand down its moust to get the hook..........

thanks for clearing that up ... i was going to ask if you'd recover the trace

... we tried to release it after swimming her but she just sank, luckerly we ended up in 15ft of water and i dove into the water andput a noose around her pecteral fin and pulled her back up. we swam her for another 20mins before she gave a big kick to be released.....

might have thought otherwise cos you'd actually go dive for the shark

[madmullet]

yeh why not especially for a nurse...........mad sharks

[RyanG45]

mate looks like fun, whens the next time you goin out

chees ryan

[Surfingant]

Mad session and some awesome photos, well done.

[BassTracker]

Mate very nice.. Well done. wish I was there

[madmullet]

thanks very much guys, um i go out every friday night or saturday ryan

[uglyfish]

Well done, that has been on my to do list for ages..Might have to head out my self one of these days..The bay looked amazing..

Awesome stuff!

[madmullet]

cheers uglyfish

[Do$tylz]

nice man. I'm still yet to go out chasing sharks.. its on my to do list. I just can't get away from chasing those pesky bream

[madmullet]

man during summer besides chasing pelagics for line peeling runs, sharks are the bomb... very expencice if you get hard into it, and very addictive. evan if you chase bullies around the 60-1m mark 0n2-4kg line is a buzzzzzzz.

get out their and give it a go...you will enjoy it............

[uglyfish]

Bullies :pinch: I wanna chase a big tiger, the adrenaline of hooking one bigger than my boat :whistle:

That'd be the go...

[madmullet]

i second that. :woohoo:

[uglyfish]

We'll organize a trip one day madmullet, it'd be an absolute awesome adrenaline rush..

[aussie123]

If you can find any patches of mud you will find the large tigers and whalers also love the mud.

Fish your baits on the bottom for them too.

[Young_fella]

... we tried to release it after swimming her but she just sank, luckerly we ended up in 15ft of water and i dove into the water andput a noose around her pecteral fin and pulled her back up. we swam her for another 20mins before she gave a big kick to be released.....

Mate that is awesome. I don't know too many people who would do that. Thats legendary.

[madmullet]

sounds good uglyfish..... for sure in for that just p/m me when your ready and we will work it out from their....... cheers kurt

[madmullet]

Young_fella

when you have done as much sharking as i has over the years you become quite attached to the species you are after.... nurse sharks are one of my favourite sharks and i have caught a fair few in the rous channel and up near tangalooma. they are a fierce looking shark but are very placid and the nurse is the only shark that when youi bring them along side the boat they dont thrash. they only bonus i have found with acsidently catching a nurse is that they have cobia around them all the time. not huge but good fun on 4lb.

[madmullet]

cheers aussie123