Posted on 07/17/2008 10:49:48 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson
A LARGE great white shark has been sighted in a lake on the New South Wales Central Coast, prompting warnings for people to take caution in surrounding waterways.
A commercial fisherman snagged the beast this morning while casting nets off Canton Beach, on the north side of Tuggerah Lake, which opens into the Pacific Ocean at The Entrance.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Seven meters! That's almost as big as the shark in Jaws!
We’re gonna need a bigger boat
I thought salt-water beasties couldn’t survive in fresh water.
Wow. This thread was deleted and then un-deleted.
If I am reading the article correctly, I think they are actually talking about a bay or cove, because they talk about it being open to the ocean at one end.
“Ten thousand dollars. For that, you get the head...the tail...the whole damn thing.”
/Quint
That’s gonna leave a mark.
One of my neighbors used to live and work in Galveston, and he would often wade out into the bay to fish. One evening, he had his catch tied to a floating ice chest that he had tied to his waist, when a shark “about a foot wide and black” came tearing in, took his fish and shredded the ice chest. The shark then turned around and headed for John, who commenced to running on the water, beating the thing to shore.
What kind of idiot tries to take a hook out of a shark’s mouth?
The kind of idiot you start calling 'Lefty'.
[ open on interior, Woman's Apartment, 2:00 a.m. ]
[ doorbell rings ]
Woman: Who is it?
Voice At Door: [ drawn-out pause ] Uh.. trick or treat?
Woman: [ gets up and walks cautiously to the door ] Look, it's two o'clock in the morning. Halloween's over! Shouldn't you be in bed by now?
Voice At Door: [ stuttering ] Mrs. Bar- Barsen- Bargen- Barsen..?
Woman: There is no Mrs. Bargenbarson here!
Voice At Door: [ pause ] Candy-Gram?
Woman: Look, I'm all out of candy! I gave it all away! Now, go home!
Voice At Door: UNI- UNICEF, ma'am?
Woman: UNICEF?
Voice At Door: UNICEF.
Woman: Well, that's different..
[ Woman grabs her purse and opens the door - as she does, the Land Shark peers in, gobbles her up and drags her into the hall. ]
[ Land Shark re-enters the apartment, and stares at the camera.
Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night!”
chuckles...
Probably a Bull shark. Nasty critters.
That’s what I was thinking, and there are quite a few of them in Galveston Bay.
Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark.
A guy I talk with on a fishing message board takes his Zodiac out to the Shoals off inlets in NC and fishes in anywhere from ankle deep to chest deep water.
One time a school of mullet being chased by group of bull sharks skittered over the bar he was on in ankle deep water with the sharks following. Said he was dancing between them and running like hell at the same time.
“What kind of idiot tries to take a hook out of a shark’s mouth?”
Someone who’s never done it before.
Well, not a big fish fan or studier of ways, but I know that some salmon start in fresh water, travel to the ocean to grow up, and travel back home to spawn and die.
Darwin Award candidate.
When we used to go spearfishing, we would tie the fish to a stringer or put them in a net on an inner tube and tie it off away from us.
By the way, one who studies the ways of fishes is called an "ichthyologist."
Whoa Nellie! < /Keith Jackson voice>
Funny story.
from the Gk “Ichthys”, menaing “fish”
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Iesous
Christos
Theon
Hyos
Sotier [sic?]
..aso some may have on their bumpers
(iirc)
The funny thing is the dude’s wingman, who was apparently there to restrain the shark, bugs out on his buddy as soon as the shark lurches.
Is that because they smell funny?
Not always true...especially with sharks. The 1916 Matawan Creek attacks in NJ, and on which the novel Jaws is loosely based is believed to have been the result of a great white going upstream. Bull sharks are noted to be an especially hardy breed and routinely find their way into brackish, or fresh water. They are a common hazard in the Zambezi River in Africa, and have been found in the Mississippi River as far north as Cairo, Illinois. Here in Louisiana, they're fairly regularly found in the Atchafalaya River basin.
Jaws theme!....
Another bull shark caught from a dock in Tampa.
They can for periods of time. The story that inspired Jaws was a couple of sharks that swam up fresh streams in NJ a hundred years ago and feasted.
That was the Matawan Creek Maneater I referenced in #28. It was in 1916, and there were one or two attacks off the beach that preceded the inland attacks. Local authorities initially tried to blame them on a German U-Boat, known to be prowling the coast at the time, or an errant torpedo.
After I posted #28, I did a little additional reading (mostly to make sure I'd spelled "Matawan" correctly:-). I'd known Bulls have been as far north as Illinois via the Mississippi, but didn't realize they'd been found 2,500 miles up the Amazon as well (as per the National Geographic website).
They’re reputed to have made it up alot farther to Iowa, but no documentation. Sharks are tough creatures.
Those idiots.
I guess a hook is more important than a few fingers.
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