PB Shark on spin
Submitted by Chris fish on Sun, 2015-06-14 11:34
Note: fish was released ASAP and was not the intended target.
Smashed my PB shark on spin with this absolute monster of a nurse!! Female Raggie about 200-230kg acording to the weight to length charts. was caught on a Anyfish Anywhere six & bait rod, 5500 expedition reel, 50lb SAS braid on a busted fishing pulley rig with a single 9/0 hook on a short bit of 49 strand wire. took about 30 mins to land on a very heavy drag. so stoked to have got such a huge shark on a cast bait and spin gear!! my back was feeling it the next day thats for sure
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jighead
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Geezus
That's bloody big Chris. Fantastic catch mate.
Plug
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nice fishwhere do get it
nice fish
where do get it
i need cheaper hobbies
Brock O
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Monster Mate
half hour is good going for that size surely!
Hutch
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Hell yeah, that's
Hell yeah, that's awesome
Peel much line?
Chris fish
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Cheers guys, pulled a fair
Cheers guys, pulled a fair bit of line and was very stubborn using the waves to its advantage. It didn't have many places to go because of where we where fishing so that's why I think it didn't take long to get it but i fished the reel nearly locked the entire fight. Was caught in Albany
always looking for a new challenge!!
meglodon
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That's a good catch
Well done on the catch and release.
uncle
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bloody good effort that
well done
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Plug
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my biggest would come from
my biggest would come from the tail up to the first gill so nothing compared to that
i need cheaper hobbies
brendo83
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How do you land such a large
How do you land such a large fish without the use of a gaff? i take it you rope the tail? and how do you get it back home safely?
Home is where you leave your shit when you go fishing
Chris fish
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no tail ropes or gaffs at all
no tail ropes or gaffs at all. We use 200lb+ leaders mostly so basically one of us gets to go into waist deep water and time waves to handline the shark up with the waves and we wash it up then get hooks out while holding it in the wash, we get a quick photo while getting hooks out when a wave sucks out then next wave puts us in knee deep water again and we swim them out again. hard work and scary as shit being in chest deep water after dark with something like this but still a pretty awesome experience.
always looking for a new challenge!!
Ben Derecki
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Props
Another great toothy. Thanks for posting the pic bro.
axey45
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Top catch m8
Top catch m8