g'day all,as i don't have a boat,i enjoy chasing sharks from the sand,stones, jetties,piers,wharves.......anywhere really.i have also hooked onto some heavyweight rays.ballooning out a fresh bait,soaking it in anticipation of a howling run.......is there anything better?

Yes, A 1 meter barra on cast and retrieve. The smack is sointense that you nearly loose the rod from yous hot little hand. Then the fun starts when he big girl panics and heads for open water. You also loose your head and forget your thumb is on the spool and find out that the burning smell is your thumb and not the guides on your rod. Cant beat that i reckon. But horses for courses, thats what makes my blood boil.

I dont think it matters what type of fishing it is so long as the drags singing it gets the adrenaline pumping. A 1.5kg Bream on 4lb line or a Ray the size of a dinner table, they both do their best to spool you, and you gotta respect anything that gives its all.

Speaking of Ray's the size of dinner table's. It reminds me of a time when my wife and I where fishing late one summer evening from the wharf at Huskisson and the resident stingray who is two metre's across, picked up my wife's bait.

There was absolutely no way of stopping it as drag buzzed, zzzzzzzzz, short pause, zzzzzzzzz, short pause, zzzzzzzz as he slowly flapped his wings and swam out to sea. A bunch of Japanese tourists with very broken English said in unison "Haaaww, To bbiiiigggg, To bbbiiiggggg."

Thinking "No sh*t Sherlock", as the line went twang then slack, and she was gone.

Was still a big rush though........

yer cant beat that but there still very annoying those rays whilst fishing for bigger and better things

but as long as your hooked up to somthing that has the drag howling and the adrenilin pumpin is all that matters...

Too right Spinksy. I remember fishing for Jew one night and i have never heard an Abu 7000 scream like it did this particular night. Jew of a lifetime? Not to be but only 4 foot of blue shark. Went better than any jew i've caught.

Does anyone else target Shark from the shore?

Or tell us your tails of your bicatch hookups, my most notable was fishing for Australian Salmon and hooking up to a 3 foot bronze whaler. Wasn't expecting it but there was a fair bit of YeeHaa that went with that. I managed to get him in we threw him back though.

I have gone after Bronzies from a place called ASI its where they build a lot of the large ferries can rember one night taaking Abu 7000 down and getting a run which smoked my reel big time and spooled me had a run on my larger reel later on that night and ended up catching a rather large Bronzie that had my line fom the first run.

once when i was whiting fishing inside port albert bay i was using 6lb gear when all of a sudden my line started screaming and me and my dad seen a big splsh way back so we started up the motor and chased it as we were curious it turned out to be a 3 1/2 ft bronze whaler which i had foul hooked we landed him put a tag in his shoulder and set him back to grow bigger.

At the moment there are a lot of bait ball around perth metro which also means lots of sharks a few large ones have been caught recently

hey im pretty new to this kind of fishing but i just wanted to ask you where is the greatest spot for sharks and rays around sydney harbour and what sort of tacle suits for a small fish