Tiger meeting knife and plenty of more pics added

The first pic is a reasonable size tiger, caught north of Hedland The other two pics show what's left of a mako after being chewed on by small thickskins off Hamelin Bay, saved the decky a job of cleaning it, kept the jaws

Have added what pics I have found, most from down south .
The two boats are the ones we worked up north, Jetline [compliments to Rob H] and Mandy J2.

Nice to be able to work with my boy and have some interesting memories to show for it, like having Alby land on the deck and it not being at all interested in having a go at you.

The thresher was caught about 300 metres out from the moorings at Quindalup

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 Cool pics... so what would

Sat, 2017-02-04 14:57

 Cool pics... so what would these larger sharks be used for, wouldn't the mercury levels be high in these larger sharks? 

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Overseas Market

Sat, 2017-02-04 18:46

All the meat was brined to bring the core temp down, plastic wrapped , snap frozen then sent to overseas markets. As long as we got paid for each container before it was shipped so I could pay the crew and bills then what they did with it was their business.

The big dollars was for the fin but unless you could demonstrate that you had a viable market for the meat then you couldn't operate.

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 Cheers carnarvonite....

Sun, 2017-02-05 06:32

 Cheers carnarvonite....

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Love your posts mate cheers

Sat, 2017-02-04 17:21

Love your posts mate cheers

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 Carnarvonite, is that the

Mon, 2017-02-06 13:28

 Carnarvonite, is that the same shark boat thats still down there moored up.

 

The two old boys still run it, trying to remember there names, i should ive met them plenty of times. Think ones name is peter?

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Which one?

Mon, 2017-02-06 19:43

Which boat, the one showing the tiger shark or the one with the mako frame?

We had two boats in the time up north , Jetline and later Mandy J2. The one with the mako was called Down South, working from Augusta through to Bunbury

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More pics

Wed, 2017-02-08 15:05

Have added what other pics I have found, enjoy

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Jeeze

Wed, 2017-02-08 17:27

 That is one young looking rooster right there!

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Jeff

Thu, 2017-02-09 05:56

Will stick one of him on later showing off his first red emperor on our very first Gnaraloo trip. You have to remember that he's 41 now to give an indication of how long ago

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Red

Thu, 2017-02-09 06:56

We were dropping a hand line in and Jeff said there is a fish on, I took the line and told him to put some gloves on, you hooked it, you land it, and that was the first time he had been in to a serious fish other than salmon.
Took him a while but we couldn't stop him after that and still hasn't.

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Wed, 2017-02-08 20:13

 Cuppla crazy farken mako's there too John.

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ID Please

Wed, 2017-02-08 20:52

What is the fish in the pictures? Very interesting post. Thanks.

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Buff bream

Thu, 2017-02-09 05:54

Its a buffalo bream, got some real hooters on top of Wright's Bank

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Big blue shark!

Wed, 2017-02-08 21:14

 Didn't there'd be any use at all for them...ammonia levels through the roof! Great pics, John!

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Requirements

Thu, 2017-02-09 06:58

Need to bring them in as proof we were not finning and dumping the carcasses. Sent off to market with the rest and if I remember we got 50 cents a Kg for it

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Cool. Love the baby Mako. IMO

Thu, 2017-02-09 09:34

Cool. Love the baby Mako. IMO the "deadliest" looking shark. Always looks more agro than a GW.

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