What shark is this?
Submitted by garethgkr on Fri, 2012-01-13 20:43
I did not personally catch it but it was caught at North Mole this arvo.
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Yewiefish85
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tiger
tiger
wade stenhouse
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Tiger shark
Tiger shark
DhuBoi
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Baby tiger shark mate ,
Baby tiger shark mate , dunna what they are like eating. Assuming it will be eaten :) coulda made for a really nice photo at the mole nice catch , any more info like a story behind the capture ?
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scotto
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A dead one
Nice work mate, andas the others have said its a tiger.
They are good eating around that size, but you and your mates should cut its fins off as soon as you know you're gonna keep it
garethgkr
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We were in a hurry for my
We were in a hurry for my mate was late for dinner with his girl. My car boot is a mess though now. Had to bend the fish in to two, head when in the pail and tail when in to bucket, but it managed to jump out and bloodied my entire boot while I was driving.
PS thanks for the tip. Our first shark actually, we haven't been lucky, for each time we go we get bite offs on 150lb and 200lb wire.
MattMiller
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Yep,
Tiger shark. What did the person who caught it identify it as?
garethgkr
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Well he just said shark, then
Well he just said shark, then some other guys came and saw and said some reef shark.
scottland
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what the hell
is that the stomach contents next to it?
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Leemo
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looks like a bloody NW
looks like a bloody NW blowie (if thats the stomach contents?)
Anyway, good catch. Not bad eating at that size Gareth.
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garethgkr
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Yep it certainly is, there
Yep it certainly is, there was more of that when I cut it open.
rails8291
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And again YEP
Shes a Tiger,
Wow these been a few of these been cought over the past few months, are they good eating,
garethgkr
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It's a she? How do I
It's a she? How do I differentiate sharks genitals?
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The male has a pair of
The male has a pair of claspers at the base of the pelvic fins. A Female does not have it - above is a femal.
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garethgkr
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Was there ballooning with a
Was there ballooning with a mate, and met this English gentlemen there with his 14ft overhead reel + rod.
While me an my mate were getting pissed off with jet skiers and boats going over our lines, we finally gave in when my line was severed by a ignorant dick on his boat.
Anyways, he was here on a 3 week holiday visiting his daughter, he has been fishing up and down the metro coast. After 2 or so hours his reel took off. We all said sting ray at first for it was not fighting that much. When it was about 20m out there were a few headshakes, so I said shark! And true enough it was a shark. Managed to get the shark close to the rocks and I gaff'd <- ? it.
He wanted pictures and me and my mate wanted fish and chips so we brought it up on the rocks. So after high fives here and there we parted our ways. Good bloke!
He was damn lucky though that he managed to land it! He was using 30lb braid with only 12 inchess of 40lb wire which had two 3/0 hooks on it.
It was approximately 25kgs and about four and a half feet.
Mela_77
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I can see a half digested
I can see a half digested flattie next to it, I presume it is it's stomach contents! What did she measure?
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Leemo
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Looks more like a NW blowie
Looks more like a NW blowie to me. The profile of the head gives it away imo.
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grantarctic1
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Yeah looks like
Yeah looks like a NW Blowie. Interesting cause i didn't think anything ate them. I have found lots of small blowies inside fish , but nothing as big as a that .
PS. Nice catch mate .
garethgkr
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I did not measure it but
I did not measure it but comparing it to my height, I presume about 4.5-5ft.
scottland
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tut tut tut
heard of a whipper snipper? haha nah nice catch
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garethgkr
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Hahas, lawn was actually
Hahas, lawn was actually mowed last weeked. Wish I had caught it though, so I can tick something of my new years resolution.
How do I preserve the jaws?
Leemo
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you cut them out of the
you cut them out of the head, first step. There are a few ways to get rid if the meat. One way is to boil the jaws, then rip the meat off, If you have a compost heap, that works, or even keaving it for the ants to deal with. then you clean em, you can enamel them if you so desire, or coat them.
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bod
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keeping shark jaws
have a look here. previously posted by Alan James http://www.pierandsurf.com/fishing-forum/showthread.php?40659-How-to-prepare-shark-jaws-From-beach-extraction-to-final-mounting
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Quite
Quite amazing how many little and not so little sharks are getting about the metro coastline.
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
A current affair could be watching ;)
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Batty
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Tiger
We had a 3m Tiger playing around the boat last week, only 2km from Scarbourgh Beach,
Funny thing was we had all been contemplating going for a quick dip 5 mins before, soon changed our mind!!!
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ealzee
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Tigers good eating??? lmao!!
Now i know i dont know the whole story but i am gonna have my say....... Again with people catching stuff they dont know wot it is and keeping it seems to be going on alot recently. I mean if u dont know wot a tiger shark is, wot do you know?? Now i've never eaten a tiger before but have been told they are absolutly rubbish even by the aboriginals. Leemo have u ever eaten a tiger shark? i doubt it! so y say they are good eating???? Like i said if the natives try and stay away from them i'm sure everyone else will too. Even the small ones are jammed packed with mercury!!! But hey, word of mouth and i've never eaten a tiger and never will.
kill it??? eat it!!!!
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I actually caught one about a
I actually caught one about a year ago and we ate it. Wasn't the best shark we've had but was ok. The best so far would have to be Hammerhead followed by Bronzie. As Carnarvonite said you need to clean out the bloodline in it's guts to get rid of the amonia taste. We will give it a club over the side and then cut off the tail where they bleed out beautifully. Always process them at sea as they have a huge amount of guts etc.
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scott99
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hmm i wouldnt eat that after a
hmm i wouldnt eat that after a N W blowie came out it mouth ... nice catch mate
GlennO87
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If you do not know what it
If you do not know what it is. DO NOT FRIGIN KEEP IT!
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