is it legal

[Benny01]

is it legal to use blood to attract sharks when fishing

[Reel Nauti]

There's no law against the use of whatever you like for burley as far as I know.

Cheers

Dave

[loophole]

wtf it probably is aslong as it isnt human blood

but probably not a good idead as it can cause a feeding frenzy of sharks.
and its not a good idea to encourage them in our waterways anyway.

[Nicko]

If you don't mind a bit of pain you should mix some of your human blood with fish blood and guts
Maybe it'll attract them more so than just regular fish blood.

[Benny01]

i seen a guy in the butcher askin for some blood to use as berley. i wasnt sure if he was the full quid or not

[tunaticer]

Blood was a common attractant 25 years ago for ppl wanting a big fight with sharks landbased. I can't say I've seen too much other things come around for straight blood tho, much better to use tuna oil slowly dripped out onto the water.

Jack.

[blaze]

not legal in tassie, not allowed to use mamall byproduct.
cheers
blaze

[freefish]

Pretty certain it is illegal to use anything but sea products as berley. Nothing of mammalian origin i.e animal blood or products. Supposedly to stop sharks getting a taste for mammals (human). Bill

[Ausfish]

Saw a documentary once and they said human blood does not attract or excite sharks. Apparently it is an urban myth that it does.

[tailorboi99]

Yeah Ausfish, I saw that one once aswell but I think Sharks will get excited over anything really as it has a scent...

Cheers Tom

[Reel Nauti]

Nothing like some chopped up liver and chook pellets. Years ago we used to lower a gallon drum of blood down off the wharf at night to attract jewies. Used to work well but occasionally a shark would come along. Nothing wrong with eating them either if they're not too big.

Cheers

Dave

[Dirtysanchez]

I remember years ago in NSW we fluked it to be out in the middle of a school of Australian Salmon, I reckon I could have tied a piece of foil onto a hook and would have caught them. My mate wanted a couple as his wife was asian and he assure me she would eat them. We kept 4, and slit them and bled them on the deck, as we didn't have a big enough tub. I had to bucket in heaps of water to clean up, and had the bilge pump going with a constant red stream.
There were enough grey fins circling us to create a debate about who was going to go up front and pull anchor

[salmonking]

in the uk,we used to get gallons of cows blood froma local slaughter man to use when chasing tope(shark family)worked a treat!