Hey guys I feel the need to let the "Internet Warriors" know how we or I, as Go Fish Tours in Mossel Bay, handle catching big sharks. Landing a big shark is more than just a photo opportunity for me and my clients, my main job as an Extreme Angling Guide and Ocean Research Tagger for ORI, is to always look out for every shark that we catch, big or small, more so than we look out for our clients and their photos. Some of you may see a big shark lying upside down and immediately think the worst, so let me explain...I have a rule on my tours saying that we don't fish light tackle, I believe in 0.60 is a the limit of light tackle for big sharks, reason for that is I believe to land any shark as quickly as possible to avoid all the stress and fatigue on shark I want my clients to basically land a green shark that's still full of energy as I want the shark to still be strong after we have tagged and release them back into ocean. What we or I do is, fish with a minimum of a 1.8mm leader, the reasons for this is when my client has a shark in the shallows, I want to be able to handle any big fish, handline style, on the last 10 meters onto the rocks hands on, my very first instinct is to turn the shark upside down, that's how the whole picture and tagging takes place with an upside down shark. Turning any shark upside down is what saves a shark, firstly an upside down shark goes into tonic immobilization, a sleep state that prevents a green shark from splashing around and hurting itself on the rocks. Secondly, turning
Hey guys I feel the need to let the “Internet Warriors” know how we or I, as Go Fish Tours in Mossel Bay, handle catching big sharks. Landing a big shark is more than just a photo opportunity for me and my clients, my main job as an Extreme Angling Guide and Ocean Research Tagger
