What did you do with the shark after catching it? Eat it or release it in the water?
I'm 100% C&R unless its something that can be used as bait, never intentionally killed a shark and never plan to unless it was to be used as a live bait. If my partner wants to keep something then its up to her to kill it, which she thankfully did not want to do to the mulla she caught.
The best part of shark fishing is the release, the opportunity to be in physical contact and up close to them in the water is indescribable.
The lemon from the previous photo swimming off.
A tiger I spent almost an hour swimming up and down the beach in neck deep water before it was ready to swim off, after which I followed it for almost 2kms cause it swam parallel to the beach and was worried it might end up beaching itself. When you've got two herniated disc's this is a level of pain few can appreciate, dragging an almost 200kg shark in neck deep water non stop for that period time not only wrecks your back but takes most of the skin off your legs from the constant contact.
Another lemon I got to spend some time with while it recovered
This Hammer took well over an hour to get swimming again, was my first shark so was a bit of a steep learning curve but these guys literally fight to the death!
Apologies if any of these are reposts, can't remember which ones i've posted here and cbf going back through my posts to check