The Fauna in Australia, Only would happen in Australia.
A morning fishing trip to Mandurah,Western Australia. 4 Interesting Animal Encounters. 1st Encounter, Tims Thicket. Hit a dolphin on the head with a richter plug (by accident). 2nd Encounter a dugite (snake) almost attacking me while I was pumping up my tyres in the dunes. 3rd Encounter wading the mandurah estuary near the owen street boat ramp in waste deep water going for whiting on poppers, and no bullshit a shark of atleast 8 Feet was thrashing around a 100 meters away from us unbelievably scary shit, it was definitly no dolphin. I assuming a bull shark as many people have told me I am idiot for wading the shallows as they have been seen. Has anyone seen this happen before I was in absolute shock as I have fished this spot so many times before. My mate and I were torn between going closer for a look or running and we chose ran, he had a go pro on hoping that he caught some of the thrashing on it. 4th Encounter, a stingray the size of family carpet payed us a visit on our sprint away from the shark to finish our day. No fish none the less exciting day.
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Hutch
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Date Joined: 21/04/13
Most of the time it's good to
Most of the time it's good to meet with the locals once in a while but sometimes you just wish they would keep clear of you
Auslobster
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Date Joined: 03/05/08
Wading for whiting....
...two weeks ago at Pt Grey...three types of ray; Eagle, Fiddler (aka banjo shark), and a big round "carpet". I had just released a damaged herring so probably had something to do with it!
Disturbed a large shark-like creature at Wannanup last season....brownish second dorsal fin/tail, maybe 2m long, but fairly sure it was a shovelnose.
Sharks are one thing; you also run the risk of being hit in the head by a mullet when an osprey grabs one and then a pelican forces him to drop it. Probably happened to a bloke with long hair in the seventies and that's where the "mullet" hairstyle came from!
On another note, my last 2 hour session at a popular landbased spot in the Peel produced three YFW in the 26-28cm range, and missed swipes from two others. Incoming tide seems to be the key...
Lowza
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Date Joined: 30/10/11
Shovelnose
Big Possibility the splash generated could have been definitley from one of them I was just shocked at the Size.
Let us know next time your heading down Auslobster looking for a mate who shares th whiting passion.
lastcast
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Date Joined: 04/04/13
fauna personal favouite
was slowly motoring along the edge of a huge school of dolphins harrassing an
even larger school of cuttlefish