sbf1 Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Had a day off today so decided to target some bream on the flats of palm beach. Launched at 4.00 am and fishing soon after. Got a good feed of bream, whiting and a couple flounder by roughly 7.00am I threw some bait scraps of the edge and noticed some yakkas and pike feeding then suddenly a hammerhead shark cruised up and had a feed! It was only 2.5 meters of water. I decided to do a few drifts for some flathead. I got a couple and then I was on to something big. It was going to be a challenge on 6lb line. It surface roughly 20 meters from my boat and I noticed it was a hammerhead shark!! I fought it for roughly 10 minutes and then it cut my leader. It would of been between 125-150cm big so only a baby really. Are these common in the pittwater shallows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevefish Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Yep, plus Cowan and up to the bridges, after that I don't know. Most are probably smaller than yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbf1 Posted November 12, 2014 Author Share Posted November 12, 2014 Would they inclined to have a nibble at a human at that size/age, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towlersbay boy Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Yeah mate I used to pin heaps of them from my wharf when I lived there. Lost a lot of good kings to little whalers saw some big Bulls Sharks to, like 3.5m plus. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginko Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I've hooked a few hammerheads in my tinnie in Pittwater and around Flint and Steel.- both pups about 60cm and parents 1m+. Last year I had a close call with a mean set of teeth: I had a pillie and a livie out, and I noticed a squid on the pillie, I reeled it in, and then attempted to scoop the squid in my yabbie net. For about 5 minutes, I had my hands in the water... Then I noticed a larger squid on my livie, and I reeled it up too - but the squid was much too big for the yabbie net, so I left it there for a minute while I cut off the pillie and put on a squid jig - and in that minute, a huge hammerhead broke the surface,and went down with the squid, my livie, and my 30lb line - for about 2 seconds... ping! I was very glad not to have my hands in the water when that came up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reubs Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I hooked a bronzie in Pittwater about a year ago in the deeps off Portuguese beach.. There were people buzzing around on wakeboards.. Wouldn't catch me dead in the water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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