Whale Hookup.

[Legend82]

i thought i was going 2 die 2day, bloody whale surfaced about a foot from the front of the boat, its head seemed as big as us, screaming at my mate 2 start the engine and rev it 2 let it know where there, thought it was going 2 tangle in the anchor rope, eventually went, then turned around and it was staring at us like 10m away and started heading 4 us, then disappeared fortunately, bloody scariest thing ever
makes you realize how small you really are in a 4.5m boat
no photos as i was shaking like no 2moro and concentrating on not getting killed

[reidy]

Mate of mine Shane and his son were tail struck by a female Southern right in the Tamar River (Tassie) a couple of years back.The females calf got between his 12 foot tinnie and her,she wanted the boat gone so she tail struck.Lifted the dinghy clean out of the water,scared young Jack that much he didnt step foot in Shanes boat for months.
The 12 foot savage is now named 'Whale struck"
Cheers
Reidy

[bhorton@ausmotorsear]

HI guys

a similiar thing happened to us last week when a whale ambered by but got hooked on a pilie that we had drifting out the back. Needless to say the whale was not happy and started to get quite erratic. Cut the line really quick and he wandered off. Definately my biggest hookup.. Shame i didnt tag it, would have been a world record on 10kg line!

ben