Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by MB

Do people eat tope down south?

Well, yesterdays shark fishing mission was pretty good. Few people told me wrong time of year to catch tope, esp around here but you never know until you try.
Yesterdays weather was mint.










Great day out, first few fish were spiky dogs, prob caught 8 over a hour and a half then they disappeared. Then caught a big red cod,
used that for burly to see if can get a shark in.
Seemed to work well, not long after my 850ss penn was losing line and could tell had a far bigger fish on.
Soild hookup, surfaced and saw i had a sevengill hooked up.
Wasnt the school sharks i was after but any shark was on the list and this was one of them. Reasonable fight but wasnt that big so didnt take long on the 9kg line.



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Decided i keep this one as not too big and see what its like to eat. was pleasantly surprised, no smell at all, even the next day out of the fridge(like rig)
Meat looked real good and got heaps.
Tried some just panned in butter and oils, was real good. not strong, fact was very mild in taste. Will be very good in batter or breadcrumbs, maybe some spice so if you into rig, you love this.

Met a guy who was also fishing down there that just happened to be the guy posting all these good size Topes online.
He was a good bugger and fished quite a way down from us. Saw him catch a couple of stake then straight after my sevengill shark he hooked something big.

was watching him fight this fish for like over 20 minutes, thought i better go over and give him a hand when he gets it in.
Had lighter gear, took the wrong bait lol but he had a real good tope on.
Managed to tail it for him and it was a good one, well over 20kilos...was a good day and Tope can be caught in the middle of winter










Fish was a little bigger than that photo might show, it was a good one cheers