canal shark on news

[jeff f]

ten news very soon

probably the usual beat up

[Shrimpo]

Teenager lives on canal and tried catching a 2metre bull shark on handline and he got it, Woopty F**king doo. Saying its unusual in winter. It aint unusual to get a 2 metre bullie.

[jeff f]

young fella got a 2m bully on a handline off his backyard

good effort

[fishyman]

Shrimpo wrote:

Teenager lives on canal and tried catching a 2metre bull shark on handline and he got it, Woopty F**king doo. Saying its unusual in winter. It aint unusual to get a 2 metre bullie.

you got one lately?

[Shrimpo]

No i dont target sharks but seriously that would happen atleast once a week probly a few times a week, Maybe not on a handline but a 2metre shark in a canal is not unusual.

[Jordan]

yea its been a while since i saw one of those reports on here. honestly though it is exciting, i mean heaps of people from here watched it diddnt they? i wouldnt mind if this sort of stuff made the news more often really. its better than 'a koala was saved from a cat in a tree on thursday by firefighters.'

[fishyman]

Shrimpo wrote:

No i dont target sharks but seriously that would happen atleast once a week probly a few times a week, Maybe not on a handline but a 2metre shark in a canal is not unusual.

so dont put the poor fella down then

when you catch one and catch multiple ones regulary then you can

[chubbstar]

Shrimpo wrote:

Teenager lives on canal and tried catching a 2metre bull shark on handline and he got it, Woopty F**king doo. Saying its unusual in winter. It aint unusual to get a 2 metre bullie.

and still trapping off!!

[jeff f]

pull ya head in shrimpo/fisher90 they said nothing about the catch being unusual what they said was it was unusual for this time of year

it usually happens during the summer breeding season and they are right

[Jordan]

haha here we go

[brisbane_boy]

come on boys

a bloke caught a big bully in winter well done to him, if u dont thik its that great thats k but dont have to tell everyone.

if u got nothing nice to say dont say nothing at all.

[Mack_attack]

Totally agree with you Duncan, great catch by the guy and it it generated some news that i thought was worth watching

[mangler]

Just seen it on seven news, was a pretty good catch from the backyard, that's for sure!

The funniest part was the reporter saying "Experts believe that the sharks come into the canals to feed..." :silly: You reckon??? :laugh:

[chubbstar]

2 threads, ah what the hell;)

That was a good story, The young fella "Jackson" was as happy as Larry. I enjoyed watching his excitment, good on him. If thats not a fishing nut in the making, I dont know what is.

Jayson

[waldo]

I caught a bitey too last night

I could have been famous and been on the news, i can see it now,

+ Grumpy old fart lands monster 80cm whaler +

lucky to escape with life :silly: from potential future man eater

hehehe the little bugger had me thinking I had a season PB tailor on after some splashing surface action.

[Line Tangler Dave]

Aren't we still in Autumn :S

[GeOrgEy]

The guy caught the bullie on a handreel

cut him some slack..its a decent effort!:cheer:

and newsworthy

[boofa]

The news article about the bullie was just to make other people aware that there is large sharks around.. but thats preety good effort to reel it in on a hand line ... well done mate

[GeOrgEy]

On ya boofa...

maybe go down soon and try ya luk hahaha

[montall]

I noticed that they said his mother wouldn't let him keep it. I assume that means she made him let it go, given that she said they weren't going to eat it, so she couldn't see any reason to kill it. I don't suppose it meant that he wanted to keep it alive in the bathtub, but I was wondering. Are bull sharks protected?

[benno573]

montall wrote:

I noticed that they said his mother wouldn't let him keep it. I assume that means she made him let it go, given that she said they weren't going to eat it, so she couldn't see any reason to kill it. I don't suppose it meant that he wanted to keep it alive in the bathtub, but I was wondering. Are bull sharks protected?

no mate, not protected. not really wise to eat any large shark from around brisbane owing to biological magnification of metals etc in big predators (i.e. 10 prawns with 1 part mercury get eaten by a bream, bream has 10 parts mercury and so on up the chain). they are pretty good on the chew up to about 4ft long, flesh makes great bait on the reefs too.

[montall]

Thanks benno, don't know that I could bring myself to chew on a bull shark anyway. Crab bait more like it.

they are pretty good on the chew up to about 4ft long,

I seem to remember something about that. A little jingle about not taking fish too big because of the mercury. "Shorter than your arm will do you no harm." Given that I've never caught one bigger than my arm anyway, it's never been a problem.

[benno573]

mate, bled and gutted straight away they go good. great on the bbq or even better in a curry. the head is crab bait...

[pinkey]

I love feed of brissy river bullshark around 80cm in the summertime.

[Sparky]

good effort i rekon

[tacklebox]

they had him on the Sunrise programme too. he wanted to keep it and make a trophy out of it but mum said no :laugh: . then someone wrote in and complained that it was irresponsible because sharks are endangered. hmmm

[werewolf]

are you kidding? I thought the last time they were in the news, they wanted to bring in experts from overseas to keep their numbers under control or some nonsense lol

[Leighton]

where was it caught?

[tacklebox]

on the gold coast. see article below. there's video too![br]
/>http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/05/28/11714_gold-coast-news.html