Little Shark Took My Whiting

[Davemmm]

Had a brief session this morning out on Botany Bay.

Fishing with nippers I pulled in a handful of whiting drifting along the brighton area.

Most of the whiting were around the 30cm mark with one going close to 40cm and four or five throw backs.

Just on dawn though i was reeling in what I think was a small whiting, halfway to the boat it got smashed by a run that nearly pulled the rod out of my hand and quickly busted off my four pound trace.

About an hour later I was packing up to go and had just finished cleaning my fish (bearing in mind that I was cleaning them by leaning over the side of the tinney brushing out their gut cavity and throwing gut and gill overboard) when a small shark swam under the boat.

Scared a strange brown substance out of me!

By the time I quickly wiped my hands and grabbed the camera out of the front of the boat all I got was this blurry shot.

I think he may have been the bugger that scored a free feed.

Dave

[chocofallon]

Had a brief session this morning out on Botany Bay.

Fishing with nippers I pulled in a handful of whiting drifting along the brighton area.

Most of the whiting were around the 30cm mark with one going close to 40cm and four or five throw backs.

Just on dawn though i was reeling in what I think was a small whiting, halfway to the boat it got smashed by a run that nearly pulled the rod out of my hand and quickly busted off my four pound trace.

About an hour later I was packing up to go and had just finished cleaning my fish (bearing in mind that I was cleaning them by leaning over the side of the tinney brushing out their gut cavity and throwing gut and gill overboard) when a small shark swam under the boat.

Scared a strange brown substance out of me!

By the time I quickly wiped my hands and grabbed the camera out of the front of the boat all I got was this blurry shot.

I think he may have been the bugger that scored a free feed.

Dave

Nice Photo Dave. Should have sacrificed another whiting on a bigger hook and have him pull you around on a tour of the bay I caught a 1.8 metre hammer head last weekend in Port stevens it was my first shark and couldn't believe how strong they were we chased him around for twenty minutes or so. Let him go to fight another day and steal more fishoes catches . Did you see what type of shark he was?

Cheers and great pic,

Joe

[damariboyz]

Hi Dave

We come across a 1.5 mtr { approx } Hammerhead at middle of Botany Bay heads last Sunday.

Russ

[bazle brush]

mate great post funny as in choice of words still laughing hard

but bad luck on not pulling him in and damariboyz great response tour of the day sounds great

[altmiller]

That photo looks alot like the Loch Ness Monster one!!!

Mmmmm could be the start of mystery there

Edited January 3, 2008 by North Head Rookie

[paul_pero]

That photo looks alot like the Loch Ness Monster one!!!

sure the photo wasn't taken in Scotland

[james1990]

Maybe a little bronzie or bullshark????

I caught a 5foot hammerhead off the fingal spit at portstephons about 2 years back on a tld20 2 speed outfit took me on full 360 around boat...i enjoyed the fight.

cheers james

[ishhifay]

Hi,

Seem's like you had a great day fishing. Nice size whitings a big hit and a shark sighting. Now thats What i call a perfect days fishing. Well Done Fellow Raider.