Shark swim by
Submitted by buddharock on Mon, 2013-08-26 20:27
After a few delays due to electrical issues headed out from Hillarys a little late on Saturday morning. Conditions were stunning and it was great to test out the boat without wife and kids on board. Also pretty cool to test out the new Raymarine Dragonfly.
Haven't worked out how to post video but after the burley cage was out, we had a visit from a 3-3.5m great white. Very cool to see such a big fish up so close.
Unfortunately only boated one keeper, a sand whiting and heaps of undersized flathead. The shark made the day though.
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petermac
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oh nice
nice but scary
Spitfire56
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Looks
5m! Exciting
Paul_86
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Hell yeah! Where abouts were
Hell yeah! Where abouts were you, roughly? I wanna see one of these bad boys up close in the boat, reckon it would be awesome!
tinnyfishin
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Hahahaha bugger that it's
Hahahaha bugger that it's huge ,that would have got the blood pumping
meglodon
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What a privilege you have had
I think it would be damn great to get a close up look at Mr white like you have had.
buddharock
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Awesome!
It was truly awesome. I can only imagine what it would be like to see a really big one. Speaking about it afterwards, we did realise that it was a pretty rare thing to see in the wild, especially for someone who has only had a boat for about a month! Wasn't worried at all, it wasn't bigger than the boat and apart from the close look it had at the boat, it was very cool. Extremely privileged!
Stand by the 3-3.5m call, tough to tell through the water. Was approximately 5-6km NNW of Hillarys harbour. Called Fisheries to let them know, they didn't seem that interested and passed me on to Freo Water Police. I'll try and work out how to upload the video.
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uncle
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keep waiting for
this experience, one day
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Jorie
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few years back
was a while ago now I was 15 at the time 18 now I went out with mates off south coast we where in a 6.1 meter boat and we had a great white sit around our r boat foe nearly 2 hours and it was EASY bigger then the boat. I would call it for 6.5-7meter seriously the callest thing ever seen was scary but didnt come near boat hung about 10meters away but eye pulled the whole time.... very very cool experience
uncle
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had plenty of tigers around
not no whites as yet
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
m crewe
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Shark
Had an experience a couple of weeks back on my own and 35km out @ Jurien looked over and saw the biggest shark ever.Had my 2 fish in the esky so decided to get the hell outa there