carpet sharks

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  • 15/03/2012 at 2:51 am #7161
    keenfisherman
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    anyone caught one and are they in canterbury?

    thanks

    15/03/2012 at 5:21 am #20612
    magooes
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    Have caught a handfull over the years , all south of banks peninsula .

    15/03/2012 at 5:22 am #20613
    keenfisherman
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    birdlings flat?

    15/03/2012 at 5:46 am #20614
    troutfishernz
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    I have caught heaps around Timaru. They all seem to be the same size around 12-14lb.

    15/03/2012 at 5:52 am #20615
    keenfisherman
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    what bait do you use?
    thanks

    15/03/2012 at 6:07 am #20616
    yellowfin
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    caught shit loads bloody awful things… they will take anything and at times can be in plague, will be all you will catch sometimes, heaps at kaikoura at times

    15/03/2012 at 6:12 am #20617
    troutfishernz
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    keenfisherman

    15/03/2012 at 6:16 am #20618
    keenfisherman
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    ok thanks. So i’m gussing they are bad eating.

    15/03/2012 at 6:20 am #20619
    troutfishernz
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    Yes they are bad eating tried carpet shark once and it had a strong ammonia taste.
    They put up next to no fight ether.

    They are a pest really.

    15/03/2012 at 6:30 am #20620
    keenfisherman
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    thanks for that. i’ll try to avoid them. hopefully they arn’t as common as spiny dogfish.

    15/03/2012 at 6:30 am #20621
    yellowfin
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    nothing can be as common as those shits

    15/03/2012 at 10:23 am #20626
    Miliwolf
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    Red Cod can be :)

    Carpet Sharks are probably more common then doggies in the outer sounds, I rarely fish that there but they are the main catch off the beach at night for me.

    01/07/2012 at 4:18 am #21248
    troutfishernz
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    Bit of an old topic but does anyone know how big Carpet sharks grow?
    All the ones Ive caught have been around the same size.

    01/07/2012 at 5:33 am #21250
    Miliwolf
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    Wikipedia say they can grow up to 1.5m . Would do a bit more investigation and would try and find a weight.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draughtsboard_shark

    According to the NZACA records. The all tackle record for Carpet shark was caught on 08/04/92 by A.Clark in Whangarei. It weighed 6.500kg

    01/07/2012 at 8:10 am #21251
    PierMaster
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    Have caught plenty of them around the 5kg mark at birdlings flat, one night me and a mate did an overnight trip at birdlings flat and were plauged by them, sometimes we got two at once! they are just like big dead weights. Got most of them on large fish baits as they have quite large mouths, they also have a werid smell :P

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