shark fatality @ Ballina

Post by **One Mile Point** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:02 pm

vb wrote:"Hero'' does get a workover in the (sporting) press but unlike "champion'', "conqueor'', "exemplar'' or even "paladin'' it's a four-letter word that sits easy in a three or four-deck headline.
Don't think it stretches any credibilty to describe Brock Curtis-Mathew as a genuine one

ROFLCOPTER PALADIN

Post by **Surfin Turf** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:31 am

Revolution wrote:Was out today with this young fella fresh in my mind ... felt something nip at my leg (musta been a lil fishy) and i shat myself bus rode in and moved to a new beach

was the first out at longy this morning, well before sun up in the murky dawn .... so we all know longy is not known for sharks but .... just as the sun's coming up, sitting out there alone, first the bait fish roll through and a couple of minutes later a school of bigger fish ... I don't know fish

:? but they were silver, about a foot or more long and mullet shaped, and were jumping .... I was taking off on the edge of a rip so the waters moving around the fish are jumping around me the sands moving around so I couldn't see through the water and all I could think about was this thread and that poor kid and his family .... it was all freaking me out a bit for a while until a few others paddled out .....

Post by **kreepykrawly** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:37 am

That would be Tailor. Heaps of them about.

Post by **bombora** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:43 am

More likely salmon Kreepy, been quite a few of the fat buggers along the DY-Longy stretch last few days. Though there have also been some rat kings among em too. And sambos are a preferred food of juvenile great whites on east coast

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Post by BA » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:35 am

Surfin Turf wrote:so we all know longy is not known for sharks but

Dunno Turf. According to some fishing columns I've read in the Sunday papers, quite a few Tigers have been seen around Longy.

Post by **Surfin Turf** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:57 am

kreepykrawly wrote:That would be Tailor. Heaps of them about.

.... I didn't think it was because they were swimming around a lot calmer than how I normally see tailor going through the schools of little bait fish and they were jumping a lot and looked sort of un-co when they jumped ... but like I said I'm not up on my fish .... :?

BA wrote:According to some fishing columns I've read in the Sunday papers, quite a few Tigers have been seen around Longy.

great

.... thanks for that .... well at least it's Friday tomorrow ... I never surf longy under 4' on a Friday ....

Post by **bombora** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:58 am

Yep long time ago now but in the 60s and early 70s Longy was a hotspot for gamefishers after sharks. Addled brain seems to remember a world record mako taken only a few kays off the tip plus some pretty damn big noahs of other species weighed in on gamefish club point scoe days. Longy's reef formations extend a fair way east and sharks known to follow those depth changes inshore from their haunts out on the shelf.

Post by **Spoon** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:33 pm

Should be a bit quieter tomorrow morning after this thread

Post by **puurri** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:45 pm

Surfin Turf wrote:
kreepykrawly wrote:That would be Tailor. Heaps of them about.

....and they were jumping a lot and looked sort of un-co when they jumped ... but like I said I'm not up on my fish .... :?

If they jumped as you describe then they're MULLET. (tend to leap unco manner then flop back tail entering the water first).

Post by **chrisb** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:41 pm

puurri wrote:
Surfin Turf wrote:
kreepykrawly wrote:That would be Tailor. Heaps of them about.
....and they were jumping a lot and looked sort of un-co when they jumped ... but like I said I'm not up on my fish .... :?

If they jumped as you describe then they're MULLET. (tend to leap unco manner then flop back tail entering the water first).

Reminds me of Collaroy about 10 years ago on a calm overcast Autumn day. While I was waiting at the point for a wave I noticed the sea come alive 150 metres northeast as scores of tailor arrived.

Then I witnessed a guy paddle a longboard out from the shore to the middle of the melee and toss in a fishing line while straddling his board

He caught plenty. I think I read somewhere that George Greenough used to perform similar stunts.

Post by **Surfin Turf** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:33 pm

puurri wrote:If they jumped as you describe then they're MULLET. (tend to leap unco manner then flop back tail entering the water first).

exactly ... must've been mullet then .... is that what sharks like to chase...

Post by BA » Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:42 pm

Okay. I'm saying this once, and once only. There are sharks in the ocean. Everyone should quit surfing and take up golf. Especially you blokes on the Northern Beaches.

You have been warned.

I however will continue to surf as I have balls the size of two coconuts.

Post by **Surfin Turf** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:55 pm

BA wrote: I have balls the size of two coconuts.

elephantitus ...

Post by **mad** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:40 pm

The man in grey suit cleared out the comp @ Margarets today as well.

http://www.aspworldtour.com/2007/news_s ... code=10462

I'd get those cags seen to BA - the boardie rash would be horrendous

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