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Me and a friend of mine were fishing at straddy a few weeks back and this was happening so we decided to send a bait and the gopro down, was pretty interesting to watch. How ever after half an hour it got pretty annoying.... They were even taking them from 20m's deep.
I was fishing in the bay over the weekend. Got on to a nice mackerel around 80cms which was running real hard and jumping out of the water a lot!! Thing was screaming across on the surface like nothing I had ever seen before. It was only then I realised there was a fin chasing it! Thought it was a shark at first until the dolphin came up for air! My fish dove deep and I tried to get it to the boat. Unfortunately the dolphin won the battle this is time. Bit most of the fish off right up to the back of its head, carefully avoiding the lure. Literally ate 65cm+ of fish in one chomp. I couldn't believe it!!
A few years back I fished regularly off Mooloolaba. I had a spot in about 80 metres that was reliable for a few Trag and Pearlies. Anyway, had a few trips where a pair of dolphins would show up. If an undersize fish was pulled up, they would sit at the side of the boat waiting for the fish to be returned. If it was size, they would wander off and return for the retrieval of the next fish. Buggered if I know how they knew, but they never once got it wrong!!!
How about dolphins pulling the draw strings on the trawl net in moreton bay which lead to dolphin locks on the draw strings only for this learning curve to spread up the east coast over many yearsAfter many years trying to hand feed a dolphin beside the trawler i finaly got one to take a grinner off bustard heads when i held out another fish and another dolphin came up between the trawler and dolphin and pushed the other dolphin away thinking that it wanted the fish but it did not, the skipper looked at me and said the if he had not seen it he would not have bellived it ,he said that other dolphin was teaching the other no to fratinize with humans.There some times not the cute mammals we think they are as there the only other mammal that has sex for pleasure and ive seen groups of males push a female up to the surface and pack rape it and even in the passage ive seen male packs hold a female in the shallows to pack rape it.Very smart and very intelligent.
A very well known older fisherman told me once that he was walking or fishing along towards Woody Bay on Bribie and a small dolphin came very close to the beach.
He was in the process of touching the small dolphin when a larger animal came into the shallows and forcibly moved the young one out of reach.
He said it was definate case of "keep clear of humans".
As I said earlier my experiences with other animals has made me aware of the inteligence of all of them and have seen some amazing responses in their behaviour.
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