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i have lost count of how many times iv seen/heard of 50w's almost spooled 50w is pretty much the average size for big sharks if your targetting fish 7ft+ you will have a good chance, anyone who thinks that you can handle a big shark landbased with a spinfisher is tripping cause it wont happen you'll be spooled befor you know it 6ft would be about as big as you'll get unless you hook a slug of a shark that wonts to run along the beach instead of for deeper water (99.9% of them will).. but i wouldnt know anything ill just stick with my overkill sabre 655H makaira 50w and 9/0 laughing at the misinformed fishos ballooning 300lb wire and slimy's with there egg beaters... might score myself a bronzie with a free 300m spool of 24kg hanging out its mouth :Dss

i'd say he wants some story's? haha, its good running into the older fellas on the jettys that used to balloon back in their younger years some of the storys you hear are pretty amusing lol.ss

if i did decide to do this it would be in a very large tank and yes i would be changing the water often with fresh salt water, and for this size thing i think it would be the same as many other animals they will only grow to their surroundings?? if it did get too big off to the ocean once again, i own a samoyed and a missus........ i know how to maintane things lol a fish tank is NOTHING hahah

gday fellas, thinking about setting up a fairly large salt water tank to keep a small bronzie or 7gill shark in.how hard would this be to do as i have never had a salt water fish tank, and as for feed i was gunna catch mullet, tommies etc. to keep in the tank aswell, feedback and ideas would be great.cheers ss

oh and for the balloon coming off, i just pull the ring of the balloon through an eye on my swivel or tie it off with light line, either way though evan if u out it strait to your main line it will pop under the pressure of a good run

doesnt realy matter how far a balloons out for me, just keep feeding it out til your happy with where its sitting, my mates have had balloons out 200m and mine only 100m and i got the shark of the night, then again iv had a balloon out 400m and only 50m away from shore and got big sharks, as long as you have a bait out you have a chance, have noticed when the small sharks come in early they hang fair close to the jetty chasing bait fish and crab nets etc.

got a good reel there mate, the senators will never stuff up on you if u give them abit of care, (altho my 9/0's antireverse carked it 10mins into a fight with a 10+ft that waas fun) combo's abit over board for the little ones (3-5ft) i chase these early season with 6-8lb gear lol im not too sure how you'd go finding them in the colder months as i have never done it, but if you wait for the warmers months october you'll see yourself smashing 3-5footers hard off metro jetty's and inshore marks, late october through to december you will have the chance of a big fella upto 10ft+ if your lucky, your 6/0 should be fine with most fish gettin close to 10ft, but just depends on how they feel like fighting for you, i'd probly swapo ur 24kg for 15kg line, use a decent 300-400lb wind on to a STRONG swivel yozuri have afew very strong ones out (cant remember the ones i use) and 250-400lb plastic coated wire with obe or two 10/0-12/0's on there depending on bait size ect. and you should be set using anything oily as bait, bonito would hav to be my fav.\hope this hepls any as im half asleep lolcheers ss

and where these taken on balloons or bottom baits mate?

AWESOME!! good work dude, would love to catch one of these! one of the coolest looking fish for sure.. too bad its to hard for me to get to yorkes or i'd be camping there for a week trying for one!!cheers for the report ss

exactly right USSR im sick of it, i have seen the same people out theere b4 dabbing, IF we end up goin bak there ill be taking sumthing, slingshot, water balloons of tuna oil, big ass sinkers... sumthing :/ haha realy pisses me off!SS

smokeykebab- "list of what you hav'nt caught ;)iv gotbream,bream,bream,salmon trout upto about 35cm,bream,mullet,and shittys :/my mate got a catfish that went 68cm havnt got much else in therecheers scott

not a bad combo mate, if u hook into that big one you have been chasing you might find yourself pulling anchor and chasing :Pswitch bread with semolina and the berley sounds good,"bread will do though",where u going out? section banks?cheers scott

try no sinker at all mate, i get more takes un weighted then i do evan using tiny split shots

just looked up the tld25's line capacity and the site says it will hold 600y of 15kgekul had 600m of 15kg on his sld30 and pulled it all off put 300m of 50lb braid on as backing then got all of the mono back on so he had 900m on there. but then had to take about 50-100m off to fit the 400lb wind on leader onto the reel. i agree the streach of mono is what you want. but if u are worried about line capacity if you are chasing a fish of a life time using a braid backing will help you if you hook that 8+, once again each to their own. cheers ss

hey fellas, yea its deff a good little runabout. the elec is ekuls he bought of here afew months back for the conoe but is now for sneaking up on bream etc.cheers

like brent said each to their own. but i rekn the best bet is if your worried about line capacity is to go with a 300m or so of braid "backing" then fill the rest with mono of the same kg then you get the best of both world. more line and the extra strength etc of the mono. just watch your fingers or buy some damn good gloves if you use braid LOL.ss

yea can try the glenelg rock wall, my mate got a 60-70cm there acouple weeks agoand try the north haven marina on low tide you can see deep hole around the place and most of the time if you keep moving and flicking you'll find some in therecheers

if they baan shark fishing it looks like ima start fishing for mulloway off the jettys with 300lb wire, 12/0 and a bonito :evil: i hear theres some big mullies out there and if i happen to get a shark... oh bugger, how did that happen

haha nice work man, scott

i feel your pain del! nothing but no good scumbags man!! u dont realize how much your gear adds upto till it gets flogged. i thought i lost $500 of gear when i got the qoute done it was $1160!! i hope you get your stuff back just as much as i hope we get ours! cheers

cheers fellas,it was released brenton,"not that im against keeping them"will deff do a write up when i got time, the boys on TSF will LOVE it thats for sure WP! pics are in shark season 2010 if people didnt kno

no problem catching a shark at all' date=' BUT to do it in such an irrisponsible and damaging way will not furthur the cause of anglers trying to enjoy our sport /recreation . actions of a few etc etc[/quote']im interested on what we did thats irrisponsible?? please continue

i was at the jetty thismorning, at 9.17 my 9/0 started screaming, after 45 mins i had a bronzy JUST under 8ft to the fork of the tail!!!!!!!!!!!!! after my new "fan club" took some photos and i got sum pics with it me and luke walkied it back into thigh deep water and watched the beast swim off, such a great feeling and my new PB!!!!im stoked atm :D :D :D will post pics later but will keep the jetty to myself for the time being so its not packed if i go again tonight lolcheers scott

well said ranger,ahk nws snake it would be pretty good to be able to brag about it

i dont think getting on the news is gunna be a good thing.. all its gunna do is start a shit storm and push shark fishing closer to being banned, well thats i rekns gunna happen