Fishing with Livebait | My toughest session to date!

Ahoy Team this week I experience my toughest session to date as I wrestle the conditions and the increasingly problematic sharks to try land a feed of spanish mackerel from my local inshore reef. Will I managed to sneak one past the greedy guts?!? Plus, I give you a run through of my fancy new addition to the boat!
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[@jamesrobertson8941]

😆Hi Sammy, it's so good to see you are human like the rest of us. I LOVED THIS SESSION, it shows me i'm not the only one donating gold leaf line to the ocean depths. You keep those lines tight mate 😆i'll be watching. 👍

[@CPT-salty-bones.]

Hey Sammy, Love the videos mate and unlike most other KZbinrs covering other categories you can’t make up fishing and script it. When the going gets tough and when the fish aren’t biting it’s the persistence that pays off in the end. Great work on another entertaining video mate.

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Appreciate the kind words mate, glad you enjoyed it 🍻🍻

[@serverlan763]

The sound of your Outboard is the dinner bell to the sharks. Its happening all over Australia. Charter boats in the NT are basically just in the business of feeding sharks

[@joeyfitzpatrickfishing]

Crazy you guys are having the same problem. I’m from Florida and we have the same issue

[@juliandent86]

Seen your old man Terry at manly boat ramp the other day. Gave him a couple of tiger squid.

[@jamesnewman1075]

Authentic Australian video, even with the kookaburra during the end to add some Aussie flare. Good job mate 💪 your welcome to chase Mackie's down the coast a bit 😉

[@barrsawesomeadventures7691]

Nice vid mate👏 That sunrise looked pretty good in the morning over there.😊

[@daviddombrowski2368]

Always a pleasure never a chore well done Sammy 🤙

[@user-nu4ex2nn8x]

Hey Sammy can you pls do a video on how you make your Spanish mackerel live bait and dead bait rigs? Like the video you did last year about trolling the school mackerel for larger Spanish mackerel Will help a lot mate.

[@oskarpichler2930]

Hey big fella..bitta bad luck ...I go for a gummy or a whiskerie here .when I'm getting shafted .mind you our fishing Bottom of S A is a bit different..not as many palagics .some great schools mixed Tuna after new year ..within the week.. pros from Lincoln. ships. cages .attitudes .did us big time .we're not allowed snapper for another couple years ..pros quotas were a bit large couple years back ..we still get plenty whiting squid. But gots to travel further for bigger remedies. Etc etc .. Love the pros .

[@timcheeseman2956]

Time for a shark fishing session ..

[@goodguysfishing2711]

At least you guys get to keep some sharks. In the Maldives there’s a blanket ban on all sharks. We scream and shout about it but the bleeding hearts always cry and win. You can’t even take a photo with a shark before release without someone whining about it. Sad days for anglers

[@jamesm3268]

Had the same the other night out the 18s off the seaway.

[@kengmurray1097]

Hey Sammy. Nice video mate.

[@Disco2300]

Sammy tough session mate, the sharks are out of control. You have a great profile and plenty of contacts to make this problem known to the Qld state government and opposition. We need to get them to listen and make some plans to deal with the shark problem for the whole fishing industry.

[@12fishy]

Heaps of Mac’ at the southern end. Unfortunately I got sharped twice. Heaps of spots at the desal too

[@joshuafigueroa6]

Very nice trailer.!

[@63off]

Tough day at the office mate!

[@guykeven8865]

Hey Sam, have you got any photos of how your electric reel is attached to your downrigger set-up? Or photos of how it was built . I have an electric reel and would love to set it up the same . Keep up the good work mate

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Hey mate, I do in an earlier video, I’ll find a link for you. Check this out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6avgoGYYtegg7ssi=7netfqCCBeUF-mU3

[@MYeahman]

Yeeeep, the sharks are creaming everything up and down the coast atm, I parked up on a school of mulloway i found on the sounder a few nights back, got two hookups in 20 minutes, both sharked within 30 seconds. The school understandably cleared out shortly after.This is south of Sydney so its not a QLD issue thats for sure.

[@skitzlife]

We managed to get onto a fair few fish on Tuesday, stayed in close tho and managed to evade all the sharks, heard the other boys were struggling landing anything out deeper though

[@Mark-ux7yh]

Love your videos brutha, that was a brutal start to the day, how many pounds are you dragging with the downrigger and hows the miya holding up? Thats a nifty idea to multipurpose a reel for multiple functions

[@connielasher3126]

Hey Sammy, buy yourself something cold on the way home, as consolation for the shark-fest. And thanks for keeping these videos coming. Sunday mornings with coffee and Sammy here in the US--much appreciated.

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Thank you so much for your generous gift! I certainly will be putting it too good use on frost amber ale! Glad you guys are enjoying the videos, very much appreciate the support! :)

[@JillyBean70]

Its so frustrating !!!.....we got the same issues in Western Australia

[@arnoldrudder9624]

Great show mate a shame about the sharks 🦈. Next time mate 👍👍

[@pearcebrown1043]

They are out of control mate the screenshots I have from the bay chasing sand crabs with 6 plus sharks just swimming around the boat! They need to start doing something soon.

[@claycor5990]

Sorry about the sharks, that would be very frustrating 😕

[@tfds2574]

Tough session Sammy. Viewers probably don't appreciate all the effort to go out again on the second day. 100% for effort! Fancy number plate without the zip ties 🤣🤣 But no more Paj?? What about all the Vaj??

[@jasonbrown442]

Hi Sammy I feel for you i am from the Sunshine Coast and we have same problem up here. Got a mate thats selling his boat and main reason is the sharks .Sick of bring up heads and snapped line

[@Drundel]

We have the same problem with sharks in the GOM.

[@stephenwheless9461]

I’m a charter mate out of North Carolina and our yellowfin fishing is world class but the sharks last 6-7 years have been absolutely terrible. It’s nothing to get 20+ bites through the day and maybe get 2-5 whole fish to the boat it’s INSANE you’re fully allowed to complain about them 😂

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Yeah that’s terrible! Seems like the sharks are getting worse everywhere!!

[@stephenwheless9461]

@@SammyHitzkeFishing ours is directly related to our state making commercial shark fishing illegal, as soon as the long liners in the winter months weren’t allowed to fish for them they had absolutely no predators. No clue what is causing it around the globe like you’re saying though it’s a damn shame whatever it is for sure. I absolutely love your videos buddy please never stop you’re a fish killer.

[@peppipoohductionswakashunt3157]

That’s painful mate, you wouldn’t be the first to eat a slimmy, the yak boys seem to nail a few and haven’t heard of to many having shark problems, my guess is they follow the boat motor sounds and wait for a hookup, either way it’s a pain in the ass.

[@WeAreDisillusional]

Yeah, I mean we visit a supermarket rather than chase the animals in the field because we know the foods gonna be there and involve no effort. Sharks aren’t any different.

[@peppipoohductionswakashunt3157]

@@WeAreDisillusional there’s a big difference to losing one every now and then to losing 10. Sammy’s not alone, there’s fishos everywhere up and down the coast having the same issues. Like Sam I’d rather get my meat from the field with a rod and a bow.

[@janosivan8468]

Yak boy here, yeah we don't get sharked too often on the yaks but occasionally it happens and when it does, it's a bit more scary I guess as we're sitting very close to the water.

[@peppipoohductionswakashunt3157]

I fished in the yak for years and never once had trouble with them, don’t know if it was luck or they never used to be that bad

[@kanemcdougall8337]

Time to swap out the 30lb mono for 80lb braid and give them what for!

[@keneagle7684]

Remind every one why sharks are a protected fish. Governments have no idea.

[@marcusandcodiesKoi]

What a frustrating trip. Nice new sexy trailer. Cheers 🍺

[@chrisralston294]

Smoked slimeys are pretty tasty bud

[@jayjohnson9668]

Hey Sammy it only makes sense the Tax man showed up. Its Tax time here in the US on April 15th so they always show up to get their 35%!😎

[@BigBopper-zm1kf]

The 130 Ha has become famous. Probably earned it

[@rooracer78]

If only our fisheries friends did a bit more fishing.

[@warwickmilne3149]

Fisheris needs to change the shark limit to 5 and 3m

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Sounds bloody good to me!!

[@exhaleandbreathee]

16:40 hahahahhhaahaha

[@lukipela68]

Hey Sammy, bit off topic mate but how do you rate the 400se sport hydrofoil? First time I noticed it was when admiring your new trailer. I have looked but can’t find a video in regards the hydrofoil. It’s a shame they don’t help with sharks but!

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Hey mate, yeah it works really well on that boat. Tried one on the tinny and it had the opposite effect. I think it’s very much a case by case thing 👍

[@pieterhoekstra9887]

Can't avoid the Taxman taking his bit.

[@yellowfin524]

Went to the channel markers out of the Brisbane river today...managed 3x 1m plus sharks to the boat, not to mention the dozen or so bust offs!🦈 Something needs to be done about this before attacks become common place at our beaches. Or is that what it'll take? Commonsense needs to prevail.

[@Severe2jz]

I went to mud the same day. Sharks everywhere. I did get some fish to the boat but heaps of sharks snipping the line

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Yeah mate, I reckon I’m going to start keeping/targeting more small sharks to help do my bit 👍

[@RobertJohnson-uv9ef]

Time for a how to catch a shark episode

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Sounds like a good plan to me 👍

[@claycor5990]

Is that a new shirt i see? Will that be available soon?

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Hey mate, the new fishing shirts are available on the website now 👍👍

[@georgecawley3035]

Hey Sammy Why do you take it out of gear when hooking up ?

[@BillTown-mk3xx]

Without the bad we can never enjoy the good✌️

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

This is true!

[@Side85Winder]

You are allowed to capture and kill sharks 5 in total according to the dpi nsw. Size limits do apply and some are protected not all. So how come you just don't capture the shark. Its just as fun as catch and release on those marlin you chase. If you get one you like say a mako is the best, they are good eating. It will make a good episode 'revenge on the sharks'. You can also explore good recipe to cook them. Soak the meat in milk and curry can be aamazing meal.

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Hey mate, we are in QLD, we can only keep sharks under 1.5m and believe me they are actually pretty hard to find that small!! If I do catch a small one I generally keep it. They are great eating 👌👌

[@zadar1]

Ay sammy, want me to make a video of what we have to go through for a day of fishing off the rocks. Let me know.

[@DCA001TUBE]

You could get a job a Sealife Mooloolaba Sammy, I hear their looking for Shark feeders🤣 Sorry Mate that was a joke, but so is the shark problem. Nice trailer by the way, he does good work.

[@twistedtimmy6474]

Time to bust out the big gear and lots of heavy wire and get some revenge on the toothy greys

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Hahah I’m just about at that point!

[@twistedtimmy6474]

I got a 50w with 130lb before leaders for the rivers a couple of years ago 😉

[@dennisflemming826]

Sammy you are aloud to take one shark a day you have to bring them in to check size and Spence’s need I say more. Cheers

[@liamwindsor5854]

Ease up Sammy, sharks have to eat too. I doubt a rec fisho taking one now and then will ever get the levels down, we just have to adapt or live with them

[@Severe2jz]

No.

[@liamwindsor5854]

@@Severe2jzrighto, sorry. My bad for having a different view

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

I have no issue with a balanced ecosystem containing sharks. It’s when there is a very large imbalance and the top level predator gets protected things start to get a little out of hand.

[@liamwindsor5854]

@@SammyHitzkeFishing yeah I agree, but doubt it’s due to being protected, more likely cyclical. If protecting was so effective, they’d do the same for all fish and we would be flush with them.

[@benbrown4846]

Could they be large puffer fish biting the line off? I've been having it it happening to me off Sydney last few weeks. Even on my electric reel. Biting the line off with 50m to go to the top. They chase the bubble trail the line/swivels leave. Grrr.

[@kosonenkosonen9278]

the sand paper along the line is a pretty good giveaway up here.

[@benbrown4846]

@@kosonenkosonen9278 that was only on day 2. Not day one that i recall.

[@liamwindsor5854]

Fair point, those sea toads bite a hook clean through so line and wire is no issue

[@benbrown4846]

@@liamwindsor5854 i know guys whom have been fighting marlin and got them to the leader and seen mass of toads come up and bite the line clean off chasing the bubble trail frim the swivel. I've been at Brown's Mountain deep dropping 600m and had them bite me off at the top watched them do it. Grrr. 100lb braid. Their a pest at time's here off Sydney.

[@KaylanBallard]

So many sharks Bribie way

[@acitizen.5276]

new trailer towed by a Cruiser not a "Bits of shitty" too !

[@fishmut]

Mate turn the tables and fish for sharks if that’s something you might want to do ,great fun and no bad eating .

[@jeffersonline698]

Sammy if u ever need somone to go with I will come I will put in for fuel and that Ofc

[@shaunwallis1501]

seem like may rig up to catch a shark if there so many out there.

[@scottslattery5852]

We’d appreciate if you keep Them on your side of the boarder NSW doesn’t want them either 😂

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Hahah whoever loses the state of origin gets to keep the sharks!

[@gypana]

I know it aint much of a sport but you might have to use heavy gear and skull drag them to the boat before the sharks get them and even then its no guarantee.

[@samasim3944]

I had a surfer dude laugh at me when I said I didn't go surfing anymore 😂 There is clearly a shark problem that fishermen have been screaming out for years and it's not getting any better, there clearly is an imbalance in nature and shark attacks unfortunately will have to become a common thing before anyone does a thing about it. I don't think I want to take my chances in the water when the docile creatures of the sea become hungry.

[@peterogers880401]

“Surfer dude” 🤙🏻

[@gooding1044]

Do i hear a shark cull incoming? They're getting out of control...

[@JayeL617]

Bronzies in plague proportions around perth....

[@TwoSeasFishingandAdventures]

First hey hey

[@russellhodkinson9855]

Seventh 😂

[@calumokeeffe7456]

Start doing a shark fishing trip, legally take 1 shark per persona nd 2 per boat, if everyone starts doing it then the numbers surely have to go down

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

I’ve been keeping them off the beaches. Need to start off the boat as well I think! 👍

[@uncleluap]

I ♣️ sharks

[@mitchellparkes9932]

Will get sharked all day every day playing them slow like that, here in the Pilbara you lock up and skull drag, give them a metre and they're done for, need to upsize in gear and lock up to land fish nowadays, absolutely shithouse times, bring on a cull!

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Unfortunately we can’t really go any harder with the size hooks we are using. If we had bigger livebaits we could go up a size and go harder 👌

[@bouttimefishingadventures]

Can say sharks are getting out of control. I went 0/5 on Spanish towing big dead baits.

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Yeah it’s definitely not good!

[@murrayprosser5082]

Yep those sharks so true what you say something has to be done ?????

[@exhaleandbreathee]

if you can't get past the sharks no one can hahaha. fishing is too hard hahaha

[@THWILIGHT_ACTION]

Went 4:1 to the taxman off Caloundra 😢

[@brendancarter5846]

White man outfished by Grey Suit Man!!!!

[@smileyface-re7fx]

Sometimes you just gotta pay the tax man.

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

I think I’ve paid enough tax now!! 😢😢

[@Tom-gc9lr]

The shark problems in SEQ is getting worse & worse!!!

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Couldn’t agree more!

[@lukenelson325]

How’s they drop the bag limit for Spanish and u lose the bag limit from last year to sharks. Doesn’t make sense I thought mackerel numbers were dropping🤷🏻‍♂️

[@davidmordecai4772]

Whats eating the sharks? 🦈 Maybe put a shark livey on

[@elijahmiller5778]

First

[@warrensolomon1544]

I'm super impressed with your patience and control on not screaming profanities at the blady sharks. I live on the east coast of South Africa, Durban to be exact, and we have the same issue with sharks. Only landing very few mackerel. The sharks are just next level and totally out of control

[@C4J72]

That’s why I just eat the sharks

[@gordondalrymple7644]

Why not move the boat when you got shark around ? but at the end of the day, it’s the old man and the sea

[@christianmasson6786]

I love watching your videos but you have missed this week’s upload hope everything is ok. Tight line’s brother

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Hey mate, uploaded one yesterday 👍

[@jeffreyherba8435]

What kind of sharks do you think they are?

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Combination of bullsharks and whalers I’d say

[@geecee9562]

Feel for you Sammy, I was swearing for you.

[@travisupchurch3448]

Give them sharks some sore lips!

[@marki-p5065]

Commercial fisherman tald me last week that they used take 4 tonne of shark a week. 4 years ago and the got banned from doing it buy fisheries... He reckons that's why the shark problem is so bad

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Wish they would start back up again soon!!

[@user-zt9ot1gj1u]

Fuckin sharks I have stopped fishing outside because of them up on the Sunshine Coast

[@fishydubsfishing6516]

Where is the beef I mean fish

[@kerrymarshall-vo2dv]

Yes use dynamite lol

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

That would work!

[@kerrymarshall-vo2dv]

@@SammyHitzkeFishing it’s reel problem everywhere I am a Ozzie gypsy travelling around our beautiful country in my motorhome dragging a 5mtr centre console tinny and hear the same stories everywhere I go .That bloody tax man in the grey suit got us same same all over so I have started eating them lol

[@ultramoon4]

Where's today's vid

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

There wasn’t one sorry mate, uploaded again yesterday though 👌👌

[@ultramoon4]

Good reefy trip

[@willknight1005]

It's not the tax man mate, it's mullet! Nerang river mullet to be exact, they are also riddled with hepatitis. Good luck 👍

[@YZF750SP]

Well you know what to do if you have a shark problem, heavy gear, a machete and no cameras and turn a few sharks into burly.

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Hahah I’m getting closer to that point every trip!

[@SG-Gody]

I wouldn’t worry about it too much Sammy that’s fishing! Anyway, if that was me, I would’ve caught a fucking ball sack knowing my luck.😂 ❤ From W.A.

[@aussie_pete]

Sammy on days like these you should be getting the shark rig with stainless steel wire out!

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

I’m just about at that stage don’t worry!

[@seancraven2361]

It's not just there, I fish in the Gulf of Carpentaria and we have days where the sharks literally follow you around and circle your boat even when you are not fishing. Bring back large scale commercial shark fishing, there's an over supply of sharks and a market for several products from them, it will also hurt the illegal shark fishing as a happy by-product.

[@A.CFishingextreme]

mate the sharks, their so annoying sometimes

[@johnostevens7530]

Eat more flake

[@dajoaustralia6866]

Mate... your not alone. Every one of your fish got sharked,,, Not a couple, EVERYONE...This all started when UNESCO and the WHO lobbied coles/woolies etc to remove flake off the menu.. The quota got cut. The demand plummeted and shark boats closed up. Now all those 1M MODELS are big and hungry. I am up Cairns and we can hardly bottom fish anymore. If i take the kids to the beach we nail one 1 M shark and take it home. If you bleed em, gut em, trunk em, Fin em. then fillet and cut into thin strips and soak in milk 4 hrs. Then cook up as you normally fry up fish and they are as good as any fish.. And definately wont grow up to take your fish... This problem is everywhere (WA, QLD NSW. NT) When fisheries QLD did the Spanish Mackerel study, shark predation wasnt taken into account, You just caught NO mackerel in 2 days, so there are NO mackerel out there. Thats how the study went down.... They are doing the same thing for Nannygai up my way now... Its a JOKE, We will all be selling our boats and eating imported catfish soon enough the way its going with the GREENIES and their closures and ENDANGERED Sharks....

[@SammyHitzkeFishing]

Couldn’t agree more mate, it’s certainly an issue that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later!!

[@dajoaustralia6866]

@@SammyHitzkeFishing Nothing will change now.. Just like the Spanish MAC. 1pp for good, Sharks over 1.5m must be released, Can only keep 1 shark less than 1.5m per boat. This problem will only get worse. No commercial shark fishery left, and all the pups are now monsters that love following boats getting spanish mac and reds.. Watch fishing the wild in NT pro mac fishos, They have 10-20 bullsharks following them constantly.. off the charts stuff, thats what we can expect soon.

[@waynemee8920]

Licensed shooters are allowed to use a power pole/ shotgun cartridge pole for safety reasons in QLD. If more Licensed firearms owners were safely handling and releasing dangerous Sharks? Unfortunately the overlords are trying to rein that in too. I've fallen victim "again" to my kids acting out, every time they act out they come for me. Nearly bought a power head too.