Not my video. I don't normally post other people's videos, but worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsZO...icKayakFishing
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Not my video. I don't normally post other people's videos, but worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsZO...icKayakFishing
Ahh yeah no thank you....bugger that for a joke.....Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
If on the ocean I like a BIG boat to be in.Bugga that.
Yeah nah :O_O:
Saw a post on Facebook the other day about a seal with a bite mark from a gw and someone on there pointed out if you swarch Kaka point on Google earth and search along the coast line you can actually see a big patch of blood in the water and big shark moving away, have been diving there plenty of times... makes me want to give it a miss now though haha, pretty interesting, sharks from space!
Work mate showed me a video of a GW alongside his boat, (it was as big as the boat) 300m off one of Nelsons popular swimming beaches at Rabbit Island. We went swimming there yesterday and didn't see any.
I suppose that’s what you get when you are a wokie fishing off a surfboard….with lots of splashing and movement.
My local fishing page has been hot with great white stories. Now everyone's a shark expert! One or more very large great whites seems to be hanging out in Whangarei Harbour. We don't have any seals in summer and although the harbour is packed with fish, I can't see a 5+ metre shark chasing snapper around. Why summer? They can tolerate cold water and the seals are here in winter. One theory is that she is here to pup. Any thoughts?
As a diver, I'm not thrilled. Don't care about bronzies or even makos, but don't want to bump in to one of these things.
Yeah that big one in whangarai harbour was a bit concerning. I told.my kids as they were swimming out to the pole in the harbour to jump off. They didn't even bat a eye lid. Me i stayed in waist deep water for my swim. But concerning though. Must have been in there to have pups id say
Last sighting at the Frenchman.
https://i.ibb.co/B28hsc3m/Screenshot...t-11-11-39.jpg
That young fulla has some good vids.
But were any GW eye-balling you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy Jack
"....We're going to need a bigger boat!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy Jack
As a teenager I had a lot of up close and personal views of GW's in Foveaux Strait but always from a boat. One day all the other sharks took off and a huge GW, probably 20 feet, came to check the sheep carcass bait we were trolling with. I was sitting on top of the wheelhouse with a rifle on our (3 mates) small, old and fragile clinker-built boat and the shark was about 4-5 feet longer than we were. He dived and came at us from the side and went under us but made contact and rocked us about, sticking out at least 6 feet each side as he went under. I didn't dare shoot at him with my M1 carbine in case I made him angry! It scared the crap out of the 3 of us and we never did that again!
Where's the Frenchman?Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Pretty much at the harbour entrance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quackers
Biggest white I've seen was about 20feet from the back of the dorsal to the tip of the tail fin, the dorsal fin was between 750-1000mm out of the water. This was on a Navy boat doing navigation training between the Mokes and Hen and Chicks, heading in to the coast. We were all standing on the deck (basically the whole crew apart from officer on watch and helmsman) looking at this thing sunning itself, no one thought to take a picture. Damn...
As far as the kayak, octopus theory - squirt and run away haha.
One point got me part way through...What is scarier than seeing a very large shark following your kayak? Kowing there was a very large shark following your kayak and now NOT being able to see it........!!!! You know it is still there....
That a near 40 foot shark, 12 metres! Could it have been a whale shark? Otherwise you saw a megalodon!Quote:
Originally Posted by No.3
https://i.ibb.co/7x0NjnYX/Presentation1.jpg
Change of undies needed for sure after that encounter.
F me .. we were foshing around there the other week a bit further along through. Got some.good.snapsQuote:
Originally Posted by MB
I know. We were on one of the old IPC's, and had a few things on the deck to compare sizing to. But - just the size of the dorsal fin (ahem, sail) is more of an indication of the overall size of the thing. Impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
Whale sharks lack the triangular dorsal with the straight leading edge and vertical rear edge. In fact most sharks don't have such a square fin, and at that size...
If you have a look at the size of the fish in the video - and it's a very big fish - the size of the dorsal is indicative of the size of the fish. I've seen a few that size on the surface, and they are impressive. No, they are incredible animals, absolutely gorgeous fish.
But that thing we saw sunning itself that time, no one said a word the entire time we were looking at it. The entire crew apart from the two who were on the bridge, and no one said a thing. We just all stood there gawking at it silently.
I run off the theory that there is always something there in the ocean. Had a fur seal sneak up on me once, bloody near dumped a sewer load into me suit. I swear the little shite was laughing at me too! Had a mate get the fright of his life when an Orca wandered in to have a look, he turned around to a bloody bus a few meters away wondering what he was up to. The way he tells the story, all was good until the Orca tried to introduce itself and it smiled at him! It's one story that gets better every time he tells it. The eyeball was the size of a truck wheel!Quote:
Originally Posted by timattalon
well worth a watch
Interesting body language from shark when faced head on, loves to follow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQykjoTvlUA
When you see them like that they are as casual as, it's the pec fins down, back arched, tail shoved side to side and eyes shuttered that gives me the hebejebes. I saw some footage of bull sharks a few years back, those give me the turds more than the whites. Glad we don't have them in our waters TBH. Saw a massive hammerhead one day out on the water, big brown beast of a thing. Much bigger than they are supposed to get as well. Seen a few mako's in the 14-16 feet range, that's getting up there for them too. A few small blues, never really seen a big one of them and never seen a tiger personally. That big white girl from up north makes them all look like baby shark haha.
When we used to dive a bit at Ruapuke I'd always make a few nervous remarks about GWs as they were always on my mind and fella I dived with who had a lot more experience than I diving around Foveaux reckoned don't worry if you see a GW it's just having a nosey and not trying to get you...the ones you don't see are the ones you need to worry aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by timattalon
Hopefully some Orca with a taste for liver turn up.
Funny how "legend yak fishers" turn in to blubning little babies when things like that happen.
Great Whites been in Kawhia harbour this summer as well
They everywhere, no joke. I was swimming off Papamoa Beach a while back, saw two Bronze Whalers go past a few meters back and then another a few minutes later. About 10mins after that a lady started doing the jesus impersonation and started screaming and waving on the beach as soon as her feet weren't wet. I walked in from the water casually and asked what her issue was (knowing full well she'd seen a shark and was doing the white girl deal with it calmly thing). Got the full rendition with arm waving, the bouncing up and down, the wide eyes, the high pitch fast talking the full works.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7mm tragic
Waited for her to finish and then told her I've been seeing them swim past for the last 1/2 hour, they're only bronzies and they are there for the fish no danger to us. The look I got was priceless, just did not compute at all.
Watched that vid this morning, think I would be heading straight in to the rocks . Bugger paddling 4 km back to where he came in.
I would of shitted myself....
Then turfed the turd overboard....
That would get rid of that shark....!
Yeh...I would be another one for an involuntary bowel movement too.
Had a big bugger appear a few years ago off kaka point, we were in a 16 foot boat when it swam along side. Was at least 2 feet longer than us. I think it was the first time the old Johnson outbound started first pull.
I would have deployed my fecal deterrent .
Was it Call of the wapiti where the guy was paddling from one side of a fiord to the other in an inner tube and got circled by a white pointer?
I find that second video, with the scuba divers super interesting as my wife and I had a similar experience at the 3 Kings. I think it was the 2016/17 summer.
Diving in south east bay looking for crays. Water temp was super cold around 15° if I remember correctly. I was head down in a crayfish hole, only to come out and there maybe 5m away swimming directly across behind my wife was a 4m approx white.. I pointed to it and she turned around saw it and backed right up against the rocks and signaled to go up. At first it was amazing to see almost like and aquarium then as the reality set in of the situation fear pretty quickly took over. I made a plan in my head and decided to head to some rocks that were roughly 50m away. Started off across the bottom towards the rocks when I looked back to my left and saw the shark coming straight back towards me (I thought I was about to die), I watched it swim supper casually and slowly right over top of me only about 1m above and vividly remember seeing my bubbles go up and touch it, i then watched it swim out of sight. So continued across the bottom and found a rock that was breaking the surface and climbed straight up and out of the water onto the rock with all dive gear on and called out to the boat to come and get us. (Didn't know I could rock climb in dive fins) . Fuck me it was scary but watching that video shows almost identical behavior so it's quite cool to see. My next dive was in at Whatawhiwhi after that and I couldn't stop looking over my shoulder.
Ps.. it won't let me edit the post to fix my grammar, so you will have to piece together the couple of poorly constructed sentences :thumbsup:
I worked it out. Good story! I always thought staying on the sea bed would be some protection, then YouTube just threw up a video of great whites hunting stingrays, digging them up out the sand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nick.m
I figure on the seabed there's less chance of them mistaking you for a seal compared to being on the surface. The bubbles wouldn't be something their prey would normally make so it should in theory be a little more foreign to them and in turn less chance of them mistaking you for prey but I don't really know
Baskys get pretty big but wont have a go at you...not sure what their fins look like though as its been a decade or two since I saw my last one and I was not really looking at the fins.....Quote:
Originally Posted by MB
