Reply With Quotehehe, every time I read a media release/article on this that shark gets bigger!
I also like the photo of the hook.....bent near straight?
Swimmers are being urged to avoid open or exposed beaches at southeast Queensland or northern NSW over fears of a monster shark.
While there have been no sightings — save for a "great big shadow" described by a local Nipper — authorities believe a great white shark measuring up to six metres long has been lurking off Queensland's Stradbroke Island.
And it may be moving south into NSW with the currents and the migrating whales.
"If you are going swimming, if this particular creature wants you, and hones in on you and targets you, there is no way you will get out of its way that quick, it's impossible," Gold Coast fishing expert Paul Burt told TODAY.
"It's a very big fish, a fast fish and quite clearly a ferocious fish."
Routine equipment checks off Stradbroke Island's Main Beach found that a shark hook had been bent with such force that it was almost straight.
The hook — 13mm thick, 36cm in length and 16.5cm across the gape — is part of a baited drumline system used to catch large sharks near popular swimming beaches.
Primary Industries and Fisheries Minister Tim Mulherin said the hook must have snagged a shark so massive that it had the power to reshape the hook and break free.
This comes a year after a three metre-plus white pointer, killed on a drum line off Stradbroke Island, was found with huge bite marks believed to belong to another white pointer of at least five metres long.
Mr Burt said it is common to find great whites further out to sea off southeast Queensland at this time of year as the predators follow pods of whales — and especially their young — migrating south.
"In this particular incident where it was so close, within 250m close off the beach, that is definitely scary," Mr Burt said. He said the shark can move fast and could now be as far south as Ballina on the NSW north coast.
"We've got strong currents due to Saturday night's full moon — he will be taking advantage of that," he said.
"There's a lot of bait fish around at the moment and the whales are in close — so it's perfect time for this particular fish to be hanging around."
Swimmers are being warned to take precautions and swim in only patrolled beaches between the flags.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/...-bent-straight
hehe, every time I read a media release/article on this that shark gets bigger!
I also like the photo of the hook.....bent near straight?
Vegetarian - Ancient tribal slang for the village idiot that can't hunt, fish or ride.
"It's a very big fish, a fast fish and quite clearly a ferocious fish."
Personal comments like this are not what the media should print. Cold hard facts will go a lot further into accepting nature being nature than raising hysteria.
Paul Burt.......does the surf and fishing report on tv......is that expert making material? I mean how many 20 somethings with really attractive looks and personalities are weather experts?
I am glad there is a shark or two out there of this size and wish there were a lot more of them, they should be allowed to grow to the sizes that nature intends.
Jack.
Here is a question for every fisherman here ........ who has ever had a hook opened over 90 deg ( right angles) to the shank ..... ?
Let alone like the one shown which was over 135 deg
Most hooks let go at around 45 deg ! - Is this just a beat up / good story
Chris
Give a man a fish & he will eat for a day !
Teach him how to fish
& he will sit in a boat - & drink beer all day!
TEAM MOJIKO
just about time another diver became chum off Byron - she stops in there on the way south. Any bets?
Ha your prob right. There has been sightings down here year after year and it makes headlines just like this one. All a bit funny really that some people are shocked they are out there. I wish someone could get a tracking device on her and follow it's movements for a season or twoOriginally Posted by GBC
http://www.diveoz.com.au/discussion_...TOPIC_ID=24193
ROFL - already made the deco line
It's about that time of the year for a big GW or Tiger sighting around flatrock and the Cape
yep this one comes round every year....story that is.....
I saw it the other night on TV, It was Lurking around Amity Point it was big!!!! but don't fear i saw Roy Scheider blow it up. Oh hang on that was JAWS
will be good to see the 7m version swim past Coffs
I wish the shark no harm what so ever and would love to see it boat side
its all about the news
cheers Murf
The 7PM Project on Channel 10 always seems to do a 'big shark' story around the same time as these news articles too. Coincidence?
Just more hyped up media rubbish. Given the size of some of the sharks caught (and released) off the beaches in SEQ, it's a miracle we don't have to put up with this crap on the news every night. Not to mention to 'gun-ho' rambo wannabes who enjoy killing the sharks because they're 'dangerous.'
Cheers,
Kaidon
Conservation NOT preservation!
All I know is that quite a few years ago down around Port Stephens in NSW the late Lee Marvin used to fly to Australia to target GWs. His boat and crew sailed from the states.
All jokes aside, they reckon (Lee Marvin and a couple of trawler operators ) this baby was about 5 tonnes.
So Vic Hyslop's baby of 3 or 3 and half tonnes is a kitten compared to this one.
Shark was last seen about 4 years ago off NSW.
it must be spring..every year, as the warmer weather approaches you always get the following stories:
1. Major storms predicted..wow..we get storms every year.
2. Cyclones predicted to cross coast this summer..and that is something new?
3. Snakes around everywhere..oh really..just happens they have finished hibernating and now eating and breeding.
4. and then the obligatory shark story...and then everyone has heard of a bigger shark than ever previously recorded or even imagined.
I wonder how these papers would have reacted back in the late 50's and early 60's when Tangalooma was in full production..the Bay was alive with sharks then.
oh no its toying with us, just swimming rround bending hooks and making shadows, laughing and waiting for an old retired fisherman with one leg to get back into the water to hunt down this killer, then it will strike.
A quick question ? are these hooks that were straightened ????? tied off or attached to a fixed anchored point or a floating buoy ?? and how does a hook become almost completely straight .. What a load of crap !!
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