Nicho Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 (edited) Question for all who fish the area. Whats the biggest shark that you have seen up near apple tree bay. The reason I ask is that I have been doing a little shore based fishing in the first few bays you get too as you walk around on the track, (Boat is still broken!!!) Yesterday afternoon I was wading across the flats, about waist deep and a big black shape cruises in... turns about ten metres away and runs parrallel to me.. after a few seconds (seemed like an eternity) he turned and went back his merry old way.. I couldnt see it too well cause of the wind on the water, but it was definily was a shark, about 6 foot (thou they do look bigger when your in the water with them). Nearly sh*t myself when it happened.. an lets just say when he went.. I got out of the water pretty damn quick (you try running whilst not splashing!!!) He had a petty broad head and a tapered down body.. any ideas what type it could have been? Edited April 12, 2006 by Nicho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbofisho Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Mate sounds like a bull! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted April 11, 2006 Author Share Posted April 11, 2006 (edited) Mate sounds like a bull! Never seen one before so I couldn't tell you...all i saw was a broad head and a tapered body might have to re-think the whole wading proposition all over again!!! Do they hang around the same spot.. I might take the TLD down there and have some fun if they hangaround a bit. Edited April 11, 2006 by Nicho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Hi mate, Iv'e never fished up that far up before so can't help you there. Got a few small hammerhead/bonnet heads up towards the back of broken bay to a little over a meter. But the water looks deep enough and water currents look good throughout cowan so i can't see why they wouldn't go up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbofisho Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 Never seen one before so I couldn't tell you...all i saw was a broad head and a tapered body might have to re-think the whole wading proposition all over again!!! Do they hang around the same spot.. I might take the TLD down there and have some fun if they hangaround a bit. yeah mate sounds like a bull to me, the will swim right up and into the fresh in very shallow water, basically they will go where they can get a feed. Chuck out a slab of anything with a steel trace and get him if you can, i know of someone who has a fisheries grant to study the bull shark and needs one dead or alive, so if you get one PM me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pk-fishn Posted April 11, 2006 Share Posted April 11, 2006 yeah mate sounds like a bull to me, the will swim right up and into the fresh in very shallow water, basically they will go where they can get a feed. Chuck out a slab of anything with a steel trace and get him if you can, i know of someone who has a fisheries grant to study the bull shark and needs one dead or alive, so if you get one PM me! mate if you do target this sharkk and it is possibly a bull shark be very careful it doesnt mix you up with that slab of bait cause they are known to be some of the most sensitive and aggressive sharks in the water and are rated as the most deadly/dangerous. have fun cheers pk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trouble Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 One of my mates has been buzzed by a small bullshark in preety similar circumstances on the sand flats up behind halvisons and i have also witnessed sharks free swiming within metres from the shore all around the bobbin head/apple trea area.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 Well I found a little wire trace and threw it into the tackle bag to see if my shark was still in the area. I felt a little dicky walking down the track at Bobbin head with a TLD 25, but luckly there wern't many people there to laugh at me. Got down to my little hole and there were two people swimming in the spot I last saw the shark.. I explained to them the situation and they agreeded that it was best that that stop splashing around (it was their choice to leave..and I did feel a little guilty that i rained on their parade...but then again I would have felt worse If i had said nothing and something happened) Anyway I unpacked the bag and sure enough, I couldnt find the wire...bugger (still don't know where it got to) Ended up rigging a 20 Kg Mono trace with a stinger hook rig, then I went to terrorise a small school of mullet that I had seen balled up around the corner. It took around an hour to finally get one, (I kept getting bream!!!), but finally I got a big fella of around 35cm's and threw him out. I set the TLD into free spool with the ratchet on and went back to fishing for more mullet for burley. Not more than 20 minutes later I notice the line on the mullet is going a bit nuts and he is going crazy,(Not pulling line out, but getting real figetty) then all of a sudden, about 20 feet of line peels off in a hurry and stops. I put down my bream/mullet rod and wait for about 20 seconds before he starts running again....setting the 12Kg to strike I lean back to find a decent weight on the other end of the line...He then feels me and then he runs.. It felt like 40 metres in less than 3 seconds, he was moving fast into the bay. and he stayed high up in the water column so I stuck it to him and the more I gave him the harder he pulled.. After 5 minutes of fight, I started to get him in and you guessed it.. the trace snapped (right behind the front hook on the stinger rig).. He was a good size unit, and I am guessing that it was the six footer that i saw the other day. (or maybe there is more) I have to go away tomorow for a week, but I will be there next week for sure.. this time with wire!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flattieman Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 wow pretty crazy mate, when you catch it make sure u take a pic for us all to gaze at... would be pretty amazing CFD Yeah - Make sure you get some wire! Flattieman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Farrout mate, it must have been somewhere close by even when the swimmers were in the water. good on you for lettin'em know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 Farrout mate, it must have been somewhere close by even when the swimmers were in the water. good on you for lettin'em know. Yeah.. I used to swim there a fair bit!!!!! I'm still stumped that I got a hit in the first 30 minutes in the middle of the day (well, 4:30 anyway).. Either they are territorial and stay in the same spot, or there are a few of them in there. I'll give it a hit next week when I come back from Hol's and see if he is still around.. this time I will be packing Wire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big-Banana Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Be wary of the bull. Sounds like a hoot though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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