Catching Sharks Landbased
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Re: Catching Sharks Landbased
I don't mind a bit of swell shark soup. Lol. Nah there's only a couple of Vic sharks I'd put on a plate and they've all been mentioned.
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thats where i catch em all..............frozenpod wrote:20lb is a good size for gummies.
Not impossible but unlikely to get onto a toothy whilst fishing on the bottom.
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OK, 20lb leader and no toothies on the bottom....enough saidfrozenpod wrote:Not sure what you guys are doing but I've been bitten off once in the last 10 years or so.
For the last few years or we have been using 30lb braid backing with 30-40lb tough mono or fluro leader for gummies but I would have easily caught in excess of 100 gummies using 20lb mono. Landed the odd toothy in that time with mono as well.
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20lb is fine for gummy if they don't wrap them selves up.
Once that do the chances of landing on 20lb leader drops heaps as their skin just wears it through.
Once that do the chances of landing on 20lb leader drops heaps as their skin just wears it through.
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Drifta-X wrote:20lb is fine for gummy if they don't wrap them selves up.
Once that do the chances of landing on 20lb leader drops heaps as their skin just wears it through.
keep on using 20lb if your happy with it.
i dont use paternoster rigs for that reason either.
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Yeah I know the people I fish with give me flack for fishing too heavy as they use 15lb.Cretts wrote:OK, 20lb leader and no toothies on the bottom....enough saidfrozenpod wrote:Not sure what you guys are doing but I've been bitten off once in the last 10 years or so.
For the last few years or we have been using 30lb braid backing with 30-40lb tough mono or fluro leader for gummies but I would have easily caught in excess of 100 gummies using 20lb mono. Landed the odd toothy in that time with mono as well.
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How come they do this? the other day I caught a gummy shark land based, and he was all wraped up.Drifta-X wrote:20lb is fine for gummy if they don't wrap them selves up.
Once that do the chances of landing on 20lb leader drops heaps as their skin just wears it through.
Was a pain in the ass cutting it and untangling it.
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Master-pro wrote:Gummy sharks feed on the bottom there diet is mainly soldier crabs and they also scavenge
so are banana Prawn but only use them where other pickers arn't going to remove them before a gummy has the chancefrozenpod wrote:Yep and crabs are awesome gummy bait.
My kayak PBs
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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I haven't caught a gummy on prawns but snapper will often take a prawn when they will not touch anything else.
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almost all my gummies have been on prawn my bet most of driftas gummies also would have fallen prey to the prawn as wellfrozenpod wrote:I haven't caught a gummy on prawns but snapper will often take a prawn when they will not touch anything else.
My kayak PBs
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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