Hi everyone, ive heard of the odd white in qld waters but only in small numbers. Im just wondering if any one has ever had a encounter with one out on the water or if they know of anyone who has.
Hi everyone, ive heard of the odd white in qld waters but only in small numbers. Im just wondering if any one has ever had a encounter with one out on the water or if they know of anyone who has.
OH YES!!!! Many years ago now but standing on Woody point jetty yellow fin tuna around 30kg went mad and were jumping out of the water. behind them as a white pointer fin we could see about 2ft of dorsal fin and a tail swirl a Long way behind it. from what we could work out the shark must have been 20ft+
We were standing on a solid concrete jetty and our legs went to jelly just thinking about it, scary stuff.
There used to be a lot of great whites around the Tangalooma whaling station.
A few of the old and smart ones still hang around there I reckon.
They say at the resort that they used to have to hire gunmen to keep the whites from gorging on the carcasses of the whales as they were brought in to be cut up. Not where i'd have been swimming at the time.
Joel
Fishing for the thrill, not for the kill
Yep
Back in 2000 had one approx 10m from the boat. A 5m tinny & the bugger was as big as if not bigger than the boat
This was on the 24 fathom line off Surfers.
I was in such a rush trying to get footage of this massive thing, I couldn't work out why I wasn't seeing anything................ lense cap on [smiley=wut.gif] [smiley=wut.gif] [smiley=wut.gif] [smiley=bomb.gif]
in about 1998 i had a big berley trail going late arvo on curtain artifical at moreton.this monster great white came up real slow and when under the boat.it dwarfed my boat which is 17ft and the thing that really stood out was it was almost as wide as my boat
i pulled the pick and came home.it was a friday arvo and the weekend weather forecast was perfect so i rang vmr bribie and told the guy, so if a diver got eaten on that weekend it was his fault not mine
There is really nothing like being in a boat and watching a big shark swim past to make your knees go to jelly and your guts turn over.
We were going to do a Scuba dive from an 18 ft half cab, we anchored up and were getting our gear on when an 18 ft tiger shark cruised past. No one wanted to go for a swim that day!
We went home and hit the pub!
Yes, nothing like shark stories
According to some research I read in a spearfishing mag they are found all the way to the tip of Hervey Bay. They are mostly a cold water species and the water in nq is to warm for them. As a spearfishermen I hope this research is correct
Mac
Talk to Craigie about his last visit to 1770.
I am fairly sure they had a passing visit from one of them fella's!
A few years ago a bloke called in to my shop with a truck load of fiberglass fish mounts. He reckoned that years ago he caught 3 whites off 1770 that were all around the 18ft mark
Same guy said he could do a mold of an 18ft pointer!
About 2 year ago the local spanner crabbers had one wrecking pots and stealing baits.
Regards, Tony
PS Sorry for the bad news Devo!!!!
So a related question. Guys always say there was a big shark around the boat and they got the pick up in record time. Why ?? Surely they are not generally dangerous. They don't attack the boats. So its ok to sit there & not freak out ?
I reckon that would look good on my epitaph "The Ausfish Guys Said It Was OK"
Gunna, they eat the fish on the way up, fok helping em get an easy meal.
Gunna
One had a go at the outboards of one of the mackeral pro's round here not so long back!
Apparantly chased the fish to the boat and got really pissed when he missed it.
Personally they don't worry me that much, but I would have no hesitation doing a runner if they got toooo friendly
Regards, Tony
Gunna know a mackeral pro up in the Hinchinbrook area and he has had plenty of outboard encounters with hammer heads and tigers. I have also had a hammerhead follow the boat for about 3 miles once.
In Sydney many years ago, we had a mako grab the prop of a 21ft 1/2 cab. It then proceeded to swim forwards pushing us along in front of it...
I saw the footage of the great white chewing on the back of a boat in SA a couple weeks back. I assumed most of these incidents are the shark taking some interest in the berley bucket. Now I am starting to worry
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