Casting a decent shark bait directly into a 35km/h SW wind I was extremely suprised to see this cuda hit the beach, especially since my bait must of been 20m out at the most. Rarely keep any fish except for use as bait but unfortunately it bled out quite quickly on the beach so we had a decent supply of fillets and bait for the trip.

Googled some recipes but mainly found warnings of cigutera and that they taste like shit any way. Fuck that, after the amount of effort it was to fillet and pinbone it was dinner for the rest of the trip. Soaked the fillets in milk each day and they tasted great every night was definitely no need for a strong marinade or seasoning.

It was hot, many a beer and bundy by this point....

Only managed to land two sharks the whole trip, was a few unstoppables hooked which came close to dumping a spool of 65lb braid under locked drag before the serves on my wind on leaders would give up.

Blacktip I'm guessing?

And lastly one of my favourite fuckn sharks, as if the going ballistic and thrashing around on the sand wasn't fun enough already this one actually had a proper go at grabbing my hand while removing the hook. Not just a random head shake but a full on attempt at getting my hand and it's mouth connected. 

Cheers