Robofish Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Hi Raiders, Me and my mate were out yesterday in Broken Bay, caught some fish and saw some sights that made our day. We started at West Head picking up yakkas and we were filling our tank when Rob spotted a kingy swiping at the fish as we brought them in. I quickly slipped a live yakka on one of the other rods and put it to the king, several refusals later (my heart was beating out of my chest) and he finally smashed it from the surface and was on. A few good runs later he threw the hook but what a sight! We tried a few different areas am then decided to try Smiths Creek for some flatties. As soon as we entered we saw some decent Taylor busting up so stopped to throw some plastics to them and had some fun. We shortly saw another school further down, hooked up almost straight away and as I was playing the fish a decent sized Bull Shark flashed through the middle of them and relieved me of my catch! I tried to interest it with some frames but be liked the Taylor too much. Lastly we were drifting Palm Beach (which was unbelievably really quiet on the flatty front) when Rob spots a fin 20m from the boat and it was another shark lazily finning past us. All in all we did catch fish but the sharks in particular made it a day to remember. Dave Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRED-ATOR Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Great post Dave, hope all is well. Now im scared to get in the water around palm beach!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tip Tip Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Palm beach sharks don't worry me as much as the Smiths creek sharks as that is were we get the tube out and those times where you are waiting for the boat to come around after being slung off at warp speed. mmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robofish Posted December 18, 2011 Author Share Posted December 18, 2011 We did comment at the time that it looked lovely for a dip but now that will never happen For info we were right down at the far end just before the flats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryboy Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 +1 to tip tip. Making me think again about tubing in Broken Bay/Hawkesbury! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_stylz Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 yeh ive learnt over the past few months not to swim in that whole area theres some nice little bays and beaches around there just soo unsafe with the high volume of sharks .... guess it means the system is getting healthier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFB Posted December 19, 2011 Share Posted December 19, 2011 The sharks have always been there. For the amount of people who swim, water ski, etc in these areas compared to the number of people taken by sharks I do not think there is too much of a problem. There are more people involved in boating and fishing accidents each year then taken by sharks. Will we give up fishing and boating? Get out and enjoy yourself, life is too short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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