Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
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Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
Just trying to find out how people bleed a gummy shark when they land one. What technique/tools do you use? Also how soon after landing it?
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Re: Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
Straight away, cut to the back of the head to the spinal cord. Give or take 50-100 mm behind the eyes.
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Re: Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
I just head and gut them after a quick photo. Make sure to strip all the blood membrane out of the gut cavity. Legal measure is from the rear Gill slit to the base of the tail. So fisheries can still do the measurements if head is gone.
Straight into cold seawater helps flush remaining blood.
Large Esky with a couple of frozen 2 litre bottles of water. Put the carcass in, add a bucket of seawater. Fish should come out stiff.
Straight into cold seawater helps flush remaining blood.
Large Esky with a couple of frozen 2 litre bottles of water. Put the carcass in, add a bucket of seawater. Fish should come out stiff.
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Re: Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
Re-tyred is the best method.
Ignore the idiots of social media only cutting the back of the head for the photo opp at the end of the day.
Remove head, fins and tail, guts and clean the spine blood line. This leaves you with a trunk that is legal for measurement
Then hang upside down in cold sea water, if it is summer I add ice.
After about 10 minutes put on ice in esky.
Removing the tail helps the remaining blood etc leave the flesh.
Ignore the idiots of social media only cutting the back of the head for the photo opp at the end of the day.
Remove head, fins and tail, guts and clean the spine blood line. This leaves you with a trunk that is legal for measurement
Then hang upside down in cold sea water, if it is summer I add ice.
After about 10 minutes put on ice in esky.
Removing the tail helps the remaining blood etc leave the flesh.
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Re: Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
from a kayakers veiw - I cut there throat as soon as landed and head spike them - from there gut them and check there gut for mantis shrimp ( a good bait even second hand from a gummy gut ) and of cause clean the blood line from the gut cavity
then it's straight into the fish hatch
I keep the head and back of the head intact as I use this for a handle when skinning them as I find this the easiest way for me
others have different views on this
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Gummy shark 128 Cm - Elephant fish 85 Cm - Snapper 91 Cm - KG Whiting 49 Cm - Flathead 55 Cm - Garfish 47 Cm - Silver Trevally 40 Cm - Long Tail Tuna 86 Cm - snook 64 Cm - Couta 71 Cm - Sth Calamari 44 Cm hood - Cobia 117 cm
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Gummy shark 128 Cm - Elephant fish 85 Cm - Snapper 91 Cm - KG Whiting 49 Cm - Flathead 55 Cm - Garfish 47 Cm - Silver Trevally 40 Cm - Long Tail Tuna 86 Cm - snook 64 Cm - Couta 71 Cm - Sth Calamari 44 Cm hood - Cobia 117 cm
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Re: Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
Frozenpod has it right... almost. Remove the tail before final wash and ice bath - by that time he's not going to flap around!!
once filleted, cut the 'scallops' on an acute angle, so you get large diameter, thin slices.
Coat in say TANDACO fish seasoning and cook in hot-shallow-oil pan....
my-god!!! I'm salivating and drooling on the keyboooooooooooaaarrrhhh..
once filleted, cut the 'scallops' on an acute angle, so you get large diameter, thin slices.
Coat in say TANDACO fish seasoning and cook in hot-shallow-oil pan....
my-god!!! I'm salivating and drooling on the keyboooooooooooaaarrrhhh..
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Re: Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
To many boats kayak, helicopter , catch a fish,catch a fish
Re: Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
Knife straight through the heart down from the mouth and gut straight away. Dont go cutting big chunks out of the back of the head looks crap in photo and doesn’t bleed them out properly. Blood is held in the heart and guts not the top of the head
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Re: Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
I’ve seen one of the better known fishos, Gawaine maybe, do it that way with the knife up into the heart. A lot of blood came out so I guess it works but I haven’t caught a gummy since I saw that.
Only reason I’d cut the back of the head is to sever the spinal cord, it stops them thrashing much quicker than brain spiking them alone which is handy in the kayak where they can cause a ruckus. Next one I catch I plan on trying to sever the spine with a cut from under the jaw/gills to try and hit the heart at the same time.
Only reason I’d cut the back of the head is to sever the spinal cord, it stops them thrashing much quicker than brain spiking them alone which is handy in the kayak where they can cause a ruckus. Next one I catch I plan on trying to sever the spine with a cut from under the jaw/gills to try and hit the heart at the same time.
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Re: Gummy sharks bleeding techniques - how do you do it?
you must be aiming wrong Ian they slow down pretty quick if you hit the spot from what I've found
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Gummy shark 128 Cm - Elephant fish 85 Cm - Snapper 91 Cm - KG Whiting 49 Cm - Flathead 55 Cm - Garfish 47 Cm - Silver Trevally 40 Cm - Long Tail Tuna 86 Cm - snook 64 Cm - Couta 71 Cm - Sth Calamari 44 Cm hood - Cobia 117 cm
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Gummy shark 128 Cm - Elephant fish 85 Cm - Snapper 91 Cm - KG Whiting 49 Cm - Flathead 55 Cm - Garfish 47 Cm - Silver Trevally 40 Cm - Long Tail Tuna 86 Cm - snook 64 Cm - Couta 71 Cm - Sth Calamari 44 Cm hood - Cobia 117 cm
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