GC(broadwater) sharks

[matt20]

Hi lads,
Im a keen fisho and have caught many things over the years but never had any luck with sharks. I live about 15min boat drive from the seaway. Does anyone know any good spots around the broady which are likely spots to hook up. Also any help with baits and rigs would be awesome.
Happy fishing.
Matt

[Chrisso]

Matt,

There are plenty of guys on this forum that should be able to help you (and I'm not one of them). For sharks you may need to find some live bait and hook them through their back or their front lip. The key is probably big baits and to give it a go at night. There is also a few threads on the forum that should give you a idea on catching them.

thanks

Chrisso

[matt20]

Just thought i would tell everyone how i went tonight.

We started off in the coomera rive near paradise point end but the only bites we were getting were big mosquito bites. We moved out of the river towards the northern end of browns inlet (opposite Soverign Is) right next to a starboard marker there is about 6 metres of water.

After about half an hour my rachet went on my over head reel; spooled with 13kg braid and baited with a 20cm bream, 10o Hook and 2 metres of wire. I picked up the rod and felt some movement and striked......i was on.

My line was going out so fast we had to pull the anchor and reverse after it to avoid being spooled. So many times it did big runs like a freight train and then it would stop and only move slowly- especially when it was under neath the boat.

This went on for about 40 minutes of hard winding and the fish and i were both getting tired. Another huge run and the line went TWANG.........F%^%#$@!

I hadnt even tightened up the drag in the last 15 mins, i was not happy. Ah well.

My guess it would have been a around the 4 or 5 feet mark. Any one else know how big a fish like this could be?

Cheers
Matt

[fishingnottake]

geez mate did you just commit to writing that you were using undersized bream as bait?

[fishingnottake]

nd it was probably a stingray or or a passing log

[finding_time]

I think Matt 20 ment the bream was 20cmish probably closer to 24cm's ;D ;D

Ian

[sf17fisherman]

I think Matt 20 ment the bream was 20cmish probably closer to 24cm's ;D ;D

Ian

he didn't land the bream yet im sure all this happend while fighting the bream back to the boat ;) ;)

[matt20]

Sorry it was a typo- 30 cm ;D

As for the passing log (yeah okay......) # and stingrays, sounds likely for someone who wasnt there but i have fished the broadwater for many years and caught dozens of monster rays on bream gear and none of them have ever pulled like this thing.

The bream was alive and kicking when it was out there as well, unlikly a ray would take a bream in good health- from my experience they are scavengers.

[Panda]

A couple of weeks ago the wife and I were floating some pillies over a shallow rocky reef in about 1.5m of clear water. This 2m shark comes up and starts sniffing the wifes pillie. So whats she do? She starts winding in to get her bait away from the shark, and Mr shark gets excited and nails it. The spinning reel is screaming and line is going out pretty fast even though mr shark is only cruising away. Must have only been lip hooked as no bite off. Finally convinced her to keep screwing up the drag to avoid getting spooled. LOL.

Another time I was playing a nice barra when the line goes slack and the barra appears almost at my feet trying to get under the rock ledge I was standing on.
Literally right on his tail is a little river shark smaller than the barra. I am winding as fast as I can to get the slack line in and try to lift the barra out. The barra is doing frantic figure 8s at my feet trying to escape the shark. Next thing the shark snags me line with his mouth and ping goes my line. And off goes the barra!

I suppose if there is a moral in there somewhere its that sharks prefer live bait.
Never hooked one on a lure though.

[Hookem_Herby]

We hooked a BIG :o Tiger shark last week slow trolling dead baits at 1770. So I think you're right, they like live or moving baits. :-? ::)

Herby

[Jeremy]

Matt,

you did OK for a first trip. I have caught a few sharks, and a shark that did that to you for 30 mins or so would have been around 2 m or bigger. It probably rolled in your trace and rubbed you off won its body. They do love live baits - catfish and mullet are both very good. You might consider using a few metres of heavy mono leader as well as your wire trace next time. Also think about what you will do if you do get a big one close to your boat - ie how will you cut it off quickly and close to the hook?

Don't be put off, not all sharks will be that big. They are most common around 1 m or so. At this time of year, they move inshore and up the creeks to breed.

Good luck,

Jeremy

[slyham775]

Hey Matt 20 let me help you if we go fishing then i,ll catch the person who got away for you ;) how done that sound ??? pm me

[gunna]

20cm bream for bait. Nicely done.

[masterdusky]

HMM mwas gonna offer some hints...but the thought of such a keen devoted fisherfriend using a 20cm bream for bait.... >:(

[Jeremy]

yes it was illegal, but its a pretty small crime in the scheme of things.

Jeremy

[Panda]

Did you know the legal size for common mullet is 30cm?

[bigmack]

My folks live at Mermaid Waters and a 2mtre model cruised past their sandy beach last week. eeek thats the little beach I occasionally have a dip off and throw the ball for the dog (not anymore)

Phill

[Gbanger]

atleast the undersized bream was going back into the fishery food chain... some consolation...

this sounds like a story i had at the pin about a month back... i used a pilly though... and 24kg gear... didnt have wire though and it bit clean through after about 30 minutes

[matt20]

Im likely to head out again on saturday night- perhaps to the same spot. Does anyone know of any other good spots in the broadawater. I have heard that up the nerang river towards the monaco bridges are good, this is a fair treck from r.bay though.

As for the people concerned about the bream, i caught it in the canal behind my house where we feed them left overs from almost evrymeal- there are hundreds of them there, 1 smallish bream for bait is no great sin. At least some lucky predator got to eat it.

[masterdusky]

the laws a law dude..... one little bream this time...next time...the time after..... :D

[fish2eat]

Just another 3 centimetres and you're in the clear and you won't cop a flogging from fellow Ausfishers......easy

And whats more, the bigger the bait, the more likely you are to get that prized noah

[Whats_a_fish]

I remember as kid i usedto go shark fishing in the rivers near proserpine and catch metre long black tips and grey nurses. all we used was dead bait and heavy hand line. We used 90lb for everything even little bream and parrot fish. Sometimes the line would only just fit through the eye of the hook. even seen a 2metre gummy shark caught this way but he had rubber bike tube on his fingers.