Big White in C-Sound Yesterday.

Professional fisherman catching snapper on the gravel patch in cockburn sound sights a 5-6m White culling the snapper as he fishes.

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Must still be around, we

Thu, 2010-09-09 08:09

Must still be around, we went out last weekend and uncles wife rang us to tell us there was one around

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Good chance to test your

Thu, 2010-09-09 08:54

Good chance to test your gear John, white pointer fishing to christen the gear hahah

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haha, theres a video on

Thu, 2010-09-09 20:22

haha, theres a video on youtube of some guys in youtube that target them land based over east. pretty funny video aha

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I'm heading out tomorrow

Thu, 2010-09-09 08:35

I'm heading out tomorrow morning. Hopefully it'll be preoccupied with the snapper!

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I reckon theres always a

Thu, 2010-09-09 08:46

I reckon theres always a White pointer in the sound most days of the week during peak snapper season (sept- dec) people only see them 1% of the time when they are on the surface or whatever,,lots of other types as well,,

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Yep, looks like theres a few

Thu, 2010-09-09 09:06

Yep, looks like theres a few around. These pics were taken by my father out-law last week off the back of the reef at hillarys. Sure looks like a white to me. 3 - 3.5mt i would guess.

I'll stick with the tigers in Exxy, you mob south of the border can have the pointers !

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muppet think it was only

Thu, 2010-09-09 11:44

muppet think it was only last year of sightings of a big white inside south passage at coral bay.good source to

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And from a good source up here

Thu, 2010-09-09 13:18

One sighted up near Legendre on Hamersley shoal, Dampier last year. Probably following the whales.

 

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Was he culling the snapper,

Thu, 2010-09-09 09:29

Was he culling the snapper, or just eating them?

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Somebody said White Pointers

Thu, 2010-09-09 10:10

Somebody said White Pointers are an endangered species ???  Cool

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A biggy is been sighted

Thu, 2010-09-09 10:25

A biggy is been sighted inside the Mindarie Marina as well over the last few weeks. Also a decent sized sambo found floating with 30cm plus bite marks out of it..  

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Since I was chased by a GW on a windsurfer

Thu, 2010-09-09 11:01

Dont like the water from the wt side much, and that was 20yrs ago of Leighton. Lucky for me I was not on a wave board but a Cobra Gun speed board, testing a new sail.

At least that allowed me to just outsprint the bugger. Everytime it opened its mouth to bite the board it got waterbraked and missed. Lucky for me. Rode flat out into the beach, broke the skeg and ran, and it came up almost out of the water and bit the end of the $3000 board (in those days it was mighty expensive and luckily I was testing for a company).

Dont like them much but dont agree to just kill them. I just recon stay out of their way.

This event stopped me from sailing and diving, and I havent fully overcome the brown shorts feeling.

Neels

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is that a line coming from

Thu, 2010-09-09 18:34

is that a line coming from its mouth???

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nope

Sat, 2010-09-11 19:13

nah, didnt hook him, he was just checking them out.

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This has got me

Thu, 2010-09-09 18:37

This has got me stumped??????

"Professional fisherman catching snapper on the gravel patch in cockburn sound"

I thought when they banned commercial fishing in the metro zone (Lancelin to Bouvard) that that meant they banned all forms of pro fishing??????

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almost

Thu, 2010-09-09 18:48

Not quite Buz ..... they are still working out a deal with this one :(

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Hi Jody

Sat, 2010-09-11 08:23

was down at the CPBA club yesterday having coffee and the pro boat went out from the public ramp at woodies, 3 on board with the winch for pulling up their lines, the boats name is planet hollywood, benefit of doubt, could be crabbing or fishing.  Well after lunch, think this boat also did survey with fisheries for crab count, as his pro number on the side was covered over last year.

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managed fisheries

Thu, 2010-09-09 19:13

those fishing in managed fisheries eg snapper, crays, crabs,
and i think piltchards are exempt.

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Ah roger on that. That

Thu, 2010-09-09 20:38

Ah roger on that. That explains it :)

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 "The Blue Lady" is the

Thu, 2010-09-09 20:43

 "The Blue Lady" is the name of the Pro snapper boat in the Sound, unless theres more than one,,