Hook sizes and traces

Statewide restrictions

It is illegal to take any fish using the following together:

• a wire trace with a gauge of 2 mm or larger
• a fishing hook larger than size 12/0.

Metropolitan shark fishing

Metropolitan shark fishing restrictions prohibit:

• the use of any wire trace
• the use of a monofilament trace larger than 1 mm in diameter
• hooks with a shank length greater than 56 mm or a gape larger than 23 mm
• a combination or gang of hooks joined by threading the point of one through the eye of another.

These restrictions apply:

• between 5 am and 9 pm daily
• from the southernmost breakwater at Outer Harbour to Yankalilla Bay.

View a map of the shark fishing restriction area (PDF 206.5 KB).