scary stuff

[barkers creek]

went fishing up the callipe river at the secret land bassed spot at about 11 at night.was dark and were getting a few little fellers then BANG!! i swear its the loudest i have ever herd baitfish scram rite infront of me bout 6ft away i grabbed the touch from under my chair as it was pitch dark i couldent see a thingh i looked straight down to notice 2 beedy eyes looking at me a 8ft croc was in front of me 6ft away...man did i ran fast.just go to watch these lads eventrally it come up the bank abit towords the car and bait so i grabbed rocks and threw it at them (may sound mean but imgaine my thoughts and what was running through my head)

tight lines

[ffejsmada]

Scary stuff all right.
Is that an unusual occurence in that river or are crocs common there?

I would have soiled my pants!

[3rd degree]

Did you get your rods that you threw at him back?

Cheers

Jim

[sarg]

Man I don't think your mean, I like crocs though I don't have to live with them, but if one was coming towards me I would throw the biggest rocks I could find!!! I think your very lucky the loud bang wasn't it crunching you I wonder if it was dark did it know you were there before you shone your torch?

Andrew

[ffejsmada]

Hey Jim, He threw rocks at the beast, not his rods.

[scottym]

I have heard that there are a few large crocs in the Calliope. Did you report this incident at all?

[bundylundy]

Barkers Creek,
Just out of interest, what was the general area of the river were you fishing. Fished the Calliope Sat. evening and didn't see anything like that. Damm scarey stuff. Warning signs up at the boat ramp but have never really given it much thought. Might have to in the future. Cheers.

Jeff.

[GregM]

Barkers Creek,
How far up the river are you talking? I fish the Calliope River landbased all the time, day and night. Hearing something like that makes me think twice about future night time fishing forays on the banks of the Calliope.

Cheers,
Greg M

[jim_bream]

I hear the crocs up there like Gulp Powerbaits in Sh1t-my-pants or Night-up-a-tree flavour. Had a croc nail a freshwater bream (on the end of my 4lb line) in Zimbabwe. Net was n't big enough or I woulda had the bugger!
jimbo

[tin arse tony]

Don,t now about crocks but i seen big bushpigs in tha pub 1 night tha made me run.

[barkers creek]

Barkers Creek,
How far up the river are you talking? I fish the Calliope River landbased all the time, day and night. Hearing something like that makes me think twice about future night time fishing forays on the banks of the Calliope.

Cheers,
Greg M

you know the main bridge near the power staion in gladstone its the next bridge up i think they call it the anibranch bridge.so yer not very far at all,but speacking of it have u tried the calliope old bridge rite out at calliope were they have supossed to be getting jack and barra?

cheers

[barkers creek]

Barkers Creek,
Just out of interest, what was the general area of the river were you fishing. Fished the Calliope Sat. evening and didn't see anything like that. Damm scarey stuff. Warning signs up at the boat ramp but have never really given it much thought. Might have to in the future. Cheers.

Jeff.

you know the main bridge near the power staion in gladstone its the next bridge up i think they call it the anibranch bridge.so yer not very far at all,but speacking of it have u tried the calliope old bridge rite out at calliope were they have supossed to be getting jack and barra?

[Rainbowrunner]

fished there alot growing up , lotsa crocs up there mate,

[jackson4300]

sheesh aye, lucky very lucky, sorta same thing happened to me and a few blokes with me, was at the two mile at kakadu in darwin, going from a billabong to the next, about 1ft of water where the two billabongs connected(trying to get as far up towards the 4 mile as there seemed to be no barra down at the 2 mile) and yea was pushing the tinnie when and having a look around when holy sh*t. Would've been about 5-6ft about 4-5 m away from us, how fast have u ever seen 3 blokes jump in a tinnie ????
And being in only about a ft of water it started to fall over to one side.......
Was there for about 20 minutes until we finnaly got the balls again to push the tinnie back out, Think we all had simultaneous minor heart attacks
Back at camp some blokes pulled up maybe half an hour after us, they said they had just gone through there

[Plastic_Magic]

Now I would have s###t my self. I have heard of them up there and down the Boyne River where it runs through benaraby but have never experienced one yet and dont want to. Did ou catch any fish while you where there?