More Bronzies
Went out on Sunday in that horrible bloody wind.
Seems I always end up going out when it is windy as hell!
Launched at Hillarys, and my tub is pretty small so with the way the swell was coming we were getting bloody drenched on the way out.
Didnt go that far, couple of mile out just near little island on the back edge of the reef.
Burleyed up a fair bit and got one good run, felt like a sambo possibly but threw the hooks pretty quick.
Then 15 mins or so after that a tiny bit of drag got pulled, so decided to bring the line up and check the bait, felt heavy and thought possibly weed clump but ended up being a small Wobby. The bloody thing was just sitting there, could hardly tell it wasnt weed till it hit the boat.
Around half hour later another run, this one felt a bit slow but had some grunt and came straight to the surface. Ended up being this shark in the pic. We had been doing shithouse with the table fish so decided to keep him for the barbie.
I got a larger one of these a couple weeks back, can someone confirm it is a bronzie?
Hour or two later got a big eagle ray to the boat, fought bloody hard but managed to release it well and off he went.
Then about 20 mins before we left got another shark the same as the last one, but a bit bigger, this one was only lip hooked so managed to release it successfully without bringing it into the boat.
Anyway no luck with anything else aside from 1 skippy and the obligatory 4 million wrasse, but there certainly seems to be a lot of sharks around!
All of them caught on Deep Jig 200 with Stradic 8000. I reckon lighter gear in order next time! That or bigger baits 
Oh and didnt weigh/measure anything, im always too lazy for that!
Dan
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cuthbad
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Nice work Dan, sure does seem
Nice work Dan, sure does seem to be a lot more of those little guys around this summer. Should get a nice feed out of that one! im no good at shark ID but if you check out the shark guide from fisheries it makes it easier.
Did you keep the wobbie? one of the best eating sharks i reckon
dkonig82
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Yeah the wobbie was kept as
Yeah the wobbie was kept as it had swallowed a gang of 3 and a wire trace so was not going to make it anyway.
Wouldnt have kept it otherwise as it was fairly small.
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Ryan C
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bronzie
it's definately a whaler of some sort(probably a bronzie) , nice eating too, but you should cut all the fins and the head and tail off when you catch them it helps with the ammonia in these little sharks. cheers
dkonig82
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Ahh - so chopping head/fins
Ahh - so chopping head/fins etc off actually does make a difference?
My mate has told me that it does, but I wasnt sure how it would if you already bled the thing.
I did it last time I got one, but this time I didnt have a camera on the boat so decided to just bleed and gut it till I got back to shore and could take a pic.
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carnarvonite
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Cutting fins off is a waste of time and energy
Cutting the fins off doesn't do anything. Cut the tail off to bleed it if you want your boat covered in blood streaks everywhere.
What you must do is bleed it by cutting through its spine just behind its head and get its gizzards out as quickly as possible especially the brown stripe down under the guts along the spine. There is a small hole through from under where its vent was along the spine to its tail that must be flushed outas well.
dkonig82
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Ok cheers for that, will make
Ok cheers for that, will make sure I gut the thing straight away next time.
I did bleed it in the way you suggest (cutting through spine) as a way to kill the thing, but will gut it too in future.
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petervb
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did he have teeth? looks a
did he have teeth? looks a bit like a gummy
dkonig82
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Yeah definitely had serious
Yeah definitely had serious looking teeth
Got through the plastic and a couple of strands of wire of my bloody plastic coated wire leader!
Think I need better leader.
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Leemo
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not a gummy imo, none of the
not a gummy imo, none of the 'spots' or markings down the side of the thing. at first glance it looked like it, but id say some form of whaler.
good shark though, great eating size!
bludgin' since 94'
carnarvonite
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Bronzie
Looks like a bronzie . Did it have a ridge from behind its dorsal fin down to its tail? If so its a dusky whaler, if not its a bronze whaler.
Faulkner Family
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great eating size . well
great eating size . well done.your gunna enjoy them fillets but do as Carnarvonite says, it will make a big diff in taste
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