queensland When you think its a shark, then get a pleasant surprise

[tiotony]

First called it for a shark.

First one for the season - 107cm.

 

 

[jon]

Solid salmon mate well done. 

[Old Scaley]

Lovely fish @tiotony. Do you measure them to the fork or tail? 

Thanks for sharing.

[Drop Bear]

Great fish mate well done. 

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Great fish tiotony. That salmon is huge.

Hopefully I can get one like that sooner or later.

Cheers Hamish

[tiotony]

6 hours ago, Old Scaley said:

Lovely fish @tiotony. Do you measure them to the fork or tail? 

Thanks for sharing.

I just do a quick tape measure to mid tail area, I don't worry about stretching the tail out to get a few more cm - I'm only measuring against my own captures.

Aids a quick release too - however this one was gut hooked and was belly up when I tried to swim it, so it came home. They often don't seem to release well (neither do blue salmon) - the amount of times I've released a salmon and 10mins later washes up dead on the beach, so I just fish to a take limit rather than try and C&R salmon - one big king salmon or 2 or 3 smaller blue salmon then go home. Stopped fishing after catching this one.  

[tiotony]

Tried again this morning - reached 3 shark limit pretty quick so went home (3 sharks in a row = my measure that fishing is bad).