These were originally taken while shark fishing up north, had to film them off the laptop screen with phone and get Frosty to convert so they could be uploaded. Thanks Frosty.
A few of the many large ones we gotand it made a bit of fun to break the day. We would average one over 3 metres about every second or third day. Mainly tigers, hammers and dusky whalers, like the one bitten in half [one bite] so there was plenty bigger ones there.
The majority were thickskins [sandbar whalers] pig eye whalers, tigers, spinners, tigers and duskies with a few milkies and spot tails thrown in. Any live pups were quickly put back over the side to swim away and dead ones were tonights bait. All that was thrown away was the head, guts and spine because our market was for boneless meat, brined, plastic wrapped and snap frozen then packed in a container and shipped overseas. The fin was sent down to Yanchep where it was dried trimmed and sent to Asia. There was a market for the sharks claspers and stomach lining but the amount of work involved wasn't worth the return.
Our licence ran from 114E [North West Cape] through to 120E, near Cape Bossut by Bidgedanga and as far north as we wanted to travel. We would mainly work from 20-25 metres out as far as 70metre depths, remember that off Hedland, 1 x metre = 1x nautical mile offshore so most of the fortnightly trips we would see land except when leaving or returning to port. We usually ran between 500 and 750 hooks on 10 or 12mm pot rope with 8mm droppers and about 500mm of wire to a 14/0 heavy gauge hook, much like a shorter shank tarpon. We caught very little scale fish on the longline [I think they probably turned in to bait for sharks] though we found some brilliant spots out wide that we would hit when on our way in to unload. Sometimes we would put these fish live into the brine tank, freezer pipe turned off and the deck hose running in there to keep the fish alive, those who we owed favours to could come and pick which fish they wanted and what they gaffed is what they would have to take.
A few of the trips turn into nightmares, like one when we got a radio call from Port Hedland tower that I had to ring home urgently and they couldn't broadcast the message over the air, 6 hours travel to get phone range and learn that my future son inlaw had been killed in a car accident, 6 hour back , pull the gear then into port, on a plane within half an hour and off to Perth.
Another involved another 5 hour steam in get a decky' knee stiched up in the doctors surgery [ about 160 stitches] then steam back out with an old armchair for him to sit in set up down on the stern of the boat
No stress mate, happy to help. Would love to see what bit that already large shark... You must have seen some amazing things on the water that we might get a glipse of from time to time in our rec boats
carnarvonite
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Date Joined: 24/07/07
Vids
These were originally taken while shark fishing up north, had to film them off the laptop screen with phone and get Frosty to convert so they could be uploaded. Thanks Frosty.
A few of the many large ones we gotand it made a bit of fun to break the day. We would average one over 3 metres about every second or third day. Mainly tigers, hammers and dusky whalers, like the one bitten in half [one bite] so there was plenty bigger ones there.
The majority were thickskins [sandbar whalers] pig eye whalers, tigers, spinners, tigers and duskies with a few milkies and spot tails thrown in. Any live pups were quickly put back over the side to swim away and dead ones were tonights bait. All that was thrown away was the head, guts and spine because our market was for boneless meat, brined, plastic wrapped and snap frozen then packed in a container and shipped overseas. The fin was sent down to Yanchep where it was dried trimmed and sent to Asia. There was a market for the sharks claspers and stomach lining but the amount of work involved wasn't worth the return.
Our licence ran from 114E [North West Cape] through to 120E, near Cape Bossut by Bidgedanga and as far north as we wanted to travel. We would mainly work from 20-25 metres out as far as 70metre depths, remember that off Hedland, 1 x metre = 1x nautical mile offshore so most of the fortnightly trips we would see land except when leaving or returning to port. We usually ran between 500 and 750 hooks on 10 or 12mm pot rope with 8mm droppers and about 500mm of wire to a 14/0 heavy gauge hook, much like a shorter shank tarpon. We caught very little scale fish on the longline [I think they probably turned in to bait for sharks] though we found some brilliant spots out wide that we would hit when on our way in to unload. Sometimes we would put these fish live into the brine tank, freezer pipe turned off and the deck hose running in there to keep the fish alive, those who we owed favours to could come and pick which fish they wanted and what they gaffed is what they would have to take.
A few of the trips turn into nightmares, like one when we got a radio call from Port Hedland tower that I had to ring home urgently and they couldn't broadcast the message over the air, 6 hours travel to get phone range and learn that my future son inlaw had been killed in a car accident, 6 hour back , pull the gear then into port, on a plane within half an hour and off to Perth.
Another involved another 5 hour steam in get a decky' knee stiched up in the doctors surgery [ about 160 stitches] then steam back out with an old armchair for him to sit in set up down on the stern of the boat
meglodon
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Many thanks for the videos
Thank you very much for the videos they are much appreciated
timboon
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Date Joined: 14/11/10
Awsome vids mate... Slightly
Awsome vids mate...
Slightly tarnished by the friend you chose to post but we shall forgive you...
Thanks for posting Frost, good memories CVNITE
carnarvonite
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Date Joined: 24/07/07
Fisherpeople
We are still fisherpeople regardless of which footy team we barrack for. Frosty put his hand up to offer help and I accepted his offer.
Jackfrost80
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No stress mate, happy to
No stress mate, happy to help. Would love to see what bit that already large shark... You must have seen some amazing things on the water that we might get a glipse of from time to time in our rec boats
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
Faulkner Family
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Date Joined: 11/03/08
That first tiger realy
That first tiger realy wanted a piece of the boat and fishos. Certainly would have been a big one to bite the last one in half .
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together