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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

I don't understand how targeting sharks 1km offshore is supposed to improve the safety of beach goers who are at most 50m offshore. That far out there would most likely be 3m+ sharks cruising up and down the coast every single day, yet there isn't an attack everyday. So what risk do these sharks actually pose? I'd guess for the most part these sharks follow the leeuwin current and rarely ever come close to shore, how many 3m sharks were caught from the beach last summer? Only 2 that I know of. 

I'd like to know if they will be measuring to the tail tip or precaudal pit to decide if the shark exceeds 3m's. A 3m shark to the tail tip is not a large shark and I highly doubt they pose a significant threat. 

They're definitely gonna catch a lot of large tigers which will be hung up with the label 'man eater', yet in the past decade there's only been 1 attack by a tiger in WA (I think?).  

The day they kill a large hammerhead is the day I'll lose my sh!t