Thursday, October 15, 2009

Spotted Gully Sharks (Spotties) and Smoothhounds (White Spotties) - Part 1



The Marine with a Smoothhound (its not a dog though) AKA White Spottie at the Reefs

Spotted gully sharks or spotties and Smoothhound sharks, are hard fighting little machines, they dont grow as large as bronzies and raggies, and other sharks, but what they lack in size they make up in strength.


These machines have been known to pull guys off rocks while trying to land them, with their famous rolls that they do when landing them.
Me with my first Smoothhound, caught at Mnandi along the False Bay Coast.

They are found as their name implies, in gullys, and also around reefs. A spot where these little machines are targetted is the Strand Reefs, as seen above in the first picture, that one was caught by that mal (mal = mad a South African term) oke Dean the Marine. Another good spot to target these spotties is at Mnandi where i have caught a few of these guys, seen above and below. We will go into more detail on how to catch these machines at later stage, so stay tuned.

2 comments:

  1. Howdy....good information you're posting here. Got your link off CTF...keep it up...Kosi Fisher (http://dmdad.blogspot.com/)

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  2. Jesus! You guys rock. I love seeing all these dead animals hauled up on the sand while criwds of people stand around looking on. I guess everyones at a bit if a loss after all the excitement. Sure beats the excitement of working in an office eh? What do all these critters taste like or do you just rip em out if the sea for kicks? Wow, you guys, just so cool!

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