Metropolitan shark fishing
Daily fishing gear restrictions
Daily restrictions apply from 5 am to 9 pm from the southernmost breakwater at Outer Harbor to Lady Bay Shacks, south of Normanville, from Mean High Water Springs to a distance of 500 metres seaward.
During these times you cannot use:
- any wire trace
- a monofilament trace exceeding 1 mm in diameter
- hooks with a length greater than 56 mm or a gape greater than 23 mm
- combination or gang of hooks joined by threading the point of one through the eye of another.
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Statewide restrictions on hook size and trace size
At all other times and anywhere in South Australia you cannot use the following gear together:
- wire trace with a gauge of 2 mm or greater
- fishing hooks of size 12/0 or greater.
Find out more about fishing for sharks and rays.