Live Baiting For Sharks

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Characteristics of The Best Shark Bait
Where you fish for sharks is essential to how you choose the best shark bait. Sharks are picky eaters. They are not slow. They are not dumb. They are highly skilled, predatory fish, which is why you are targeting them when you fish. The Characteristics of Shark Bait include:
Localized Fish - Take a look at the local population of fish. What are people catching the most of right now? Amberjack? Mullet? Ladyfish? Bonito? The sharks in the waters where you are fishing will target the fish species that are present. They won’t hold out all day waiting for something exotic.
Size Matters - Or does it? Forage fish, those that sharks and other predators hunt, are what is essential. You can catch a giant shark on a sardine. Most often, it is not the size of the bait but the condition of it. Oily, firm, fresh, and bloody are four characteristics that make bait the best lure for sharks.
Freshness - If Fishing with Chunks, make sure it is fresh. Sharks will scavenge but only as a last resort. The fresher the bait, the more oil and blood residue it has. Sharks are super sniffers, and some can detect the smallest amount of blood in a large amount of water. Frozen bait tends to soften up once in the water and become slushy, which means once the hook is placed, and the line in the water, the bait may float off the hook.
You will need #12 wire leader, eighty to one-hundred-pound mono leader, four to eight-ounce pyramid sinkers, fishing beads, swivels rated a minimum of 100-pounds and a 7/0-10/0 circle hook.
Start with about two feet of the stainless #12 leader. Attach one end of this to the swivel and the other end to the circle hook of your choice.
Next, take about a foot of the mono lead and attach both ends of it to the same end of another swivel, making a loop.
Pick the pyramid sinker of your choice. Which one you use will be largely determined by water and current conditions.
Shark caught on basic shark rig with live mullet
Pass the bottom end of the mono loop through the eye of the sinker, then pull the swivel through the bottom end of the loop and pull it all the way through. This will leave you with the sinker dangling firmly from the bottom of the loop, with the swivel at the top.
Take some more mono leader and slide the swivel with the weighted loop over it, followed by the bead. Attach this leader to the swivel on the wire leader with the hook.
This bead is to prevent the weighted loop from bumping against the wire leader’s swivel as the loop slides back and forth.
Splice the mono leader onto your fishing line on one end, the swivel of the wire leader on the other, and you are good to go!
The advantage of the sliding weight is that the shark won’t feel the unnatural weight when it first grabs the bait.
Hopefully, it will start to swim off, and when the weight does finally go tight, the shark will be going fast enough to set the hook!

[@zameeraabeysinghe221]

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[@fishingvibessrilanka]

Thanks! Will do! ❤

[@rayansiriwardana1401]

Good job bro

[@fishingvibessrilanka]

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[@AnglingAddictssrilanka]

Nice bro!!

[@fishingvibessrilanka]

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