Sharked twice at Green Island

[ddobson]

Shot out on sunday lunch at high to 13 notts of SE and planned to drop 2 crab pots and have a flick while they filled up. Moved over to green and flicked for a bit with not much happening so i anchored up due to the wind upping to at lease 20 - 25 plus it was howling and all the sailboats even headed in behind king island. I had some slimey's in my burley bucket so thought seen as i was anchored i would run some bait down a burley trail as i was getting thrown all about the boat. My baitcaster with 15 pound braid and 30 pound leader got smashed at a rate that no snapper could do and as i put weight on it it ran around the boat and headed towards the anchor rope and then bang lost him. Sent out another and same again. Two shark hits and one flounder was my count. Headed back after the wind dropped to a managable 20 notts maybe to check the pots. In the chop it took a while to find and not even a touch. I stand corrected as i said i have never been sharked and now i have and boy do they have some pace and some good weight. Its amazing how windy it gets when a storm passes through the bay and droppes back after it has gone. Anyho till next time.

[CreelReaper]

I bet she was lumpy as mate. Not very comfy at all. Yep those toothy critters are quick. The little ones will pull hard too and give the gear a good workout. Shame you didn't get to boat one though.

Shane

[mattooty]

Unfortunate stuff mate. Are you sure they weren't spottie macks? Whole slimeys fed down a burley trail and a smoking run would definately make me think mackeral.

[snapperbasher]

could be macks I got a schoolie there tonight plus a few squire also lost some fish to sharks one right behind the boat big splash on the surface as he nailed the squire.

[Horse]

Certainly plenty of Macs around Green at times including some nice Spaniards. The season before last my brother lost a nice Squire to a Spano at the boat and a few years before that I pulled a 15.5kg job on top off the reef

[ddobson]

Thanks guys i still think it was a shark as the weight was like puling a truck in at smooth run without tail movement but i wish you guys were right and i lost a much better fish. I better try again eh. Cheers

[macca721]

Not so long ago, I had an 8 foot long shark (not sure of the type) jump clear of the water as it hit the snapper I was trying to land. In 14ft of water and not too far from the boat fishing beside me, it certainly made the blokes son, pull his legs in, as he was dangling them from the front of his boat. They are not all small fish at the back of Green.

[ddobson]

I hear yah macca i have lost some monster reds there in the past and one day i will land one before he bricks me (still don't know how a fish so big could hide under a small piece of reef but they have found a way) Cheers