Went fishing to floreat drain last night.

6.00pm my mate put a live bait (herring) out and it was soon was bitten strait off!

Bit later another big bite, it bit head off another herring clean off!

3rd time lucky! My mate hooked it!!!!!

Hour later we had what we first thought was a big ray right infront of us.
I walked in to where the "Thing" was and seen a huge dorsel fin! It was really hard to see because it was dark by this time and with the waves and spray off the waves the headlamps wernt doing there jobs at all.

I decided it was a good idea to try gaff it. I was using a 1 meter pole gaff haha Bit small. I walked in up to my waist and got right up next to it and realised it was a massive hammer head! It was about 6-8 ft long!!!!

First attempt at gaffing it , i missed! second go was good. Gaff went it right under it about mid section.

The shark went nuts! Knocked me down. I was soaking wet! Lost grip off the gaff. Fight went on for another hour and shark still had gaff sticking out!!!

It was cruising around with a shiney pole sticking out from the waves!

It ended up snapping us off

Scary thing is that there were people swimming same area 30 min before we hooked it!

Here is the story from my mate......

BTW my name on that site is tailor marc

http://hotbite.giqforums.com/forum_d...t=4506&start=0