Big Bronzies surfcasting part 2

Went down again to the local swimming beach tonight. Within 30mins we had 4 baits taken by big sharks.
First 2 dropped the baits after big runs on my mates gear. Then i hooked up on the 13.6kilo gear and had a battle for 30min before a big run busted me off.

While i was fighting my fish my mate had hooked up again on his 24kilo gear. 45 mins later had had it in the shallows.
Went out and tailed it, measured in at 2.92 m, just over 9 foot 6. We got the hook out and released it .
Was another great fish of the beach surfcasting. What it showed thou was the one i caught few nights ago was certainly over 10 feet and wider though the body.
Not bad on 13.6 kilo line on a shadow x surfcaster!!
heres a couple of pictures of my mates shark tonight.

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Good stuff,
However what really grabbed my attention was the term "local swimming beach"

Awesome well done mate!

I'm curious....how the hell does one remove a hook from a 9ft plus shark without loosing fingers :O_O:

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Originally Posted by dannyb

I'm curious....how the hell does one remove a hook from a 9ft plus shark without loosing fingers :O_O:

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Very carefully:thumbsup:

Well done again. First photo is a good one. Do you cast the baits out? If so, I'd be interested to hear bait size and rigs etc. Cheers.

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Originally Posted by MB

Well done again. First photo is a good one. Do you cast the baits out? If so, I'd be interested to hear bait size and rigs etc. Cheers.

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@MB We are just using pretty basic rigs that are working very well. Main line is tied straight to a swivel. Thats attached to a 2.5m or so trace of 310lb Mono.
Using a 10/0 -16/o circle hooks. Using pretty big baits, fish heads . Believe it or not we just lobbing them out (no sinker or weight) 10 feet to 30 feet from shore!

\Getting a hook up within 15mins everytime, its quite unreal considering its the local beach where every woman, man, child goes to lol.

Only been fishing at night but might have a day time look soon to see if they there. Low tide so we get inj the channel and current is not much

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Originally Posted by deer243

@MB We are just using pretty basic rigs that are working very well. Main line is tied straight to a swivel. Thats attached to a 2.5m or so trace of 310lb Mono.
Using a 10/0 -16/o circle hooks. Using pretty big baits, fish heads . Believe it or not we just lobbing them out (no sinker or weight) 10 feet to 30 feet from shore!

\Getting a hook up within 15mins everytime, its quite unreal considering its the local beach where every woman, man, child goes to lol.

Only been fishing at night but might have a day time look soon to see if they there. Low tide so we get inj the channel and current is not much

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That's great, thanks. Maybe I'll get round to giving it a go. I even have the traces tied (rainy day project). Really shows that in general bronzies aren't interested in humans unless they are spearfishing (I'm a novice spearo).

While reading your post, I just came across that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQmIv74Q2jw

my son was catching smaller at the pier at new brighton....sharks and big rays..the life guards were not impressed LOL.... just goes to show how close to us they are comfortable to live.....

there were a few TV shows with fella catching big bronzies off the beach a year of so back...


yip how do you remove hook...same way hedgehogs have sex...VERY carefully