Uncrowded weekday surf. Always good mate. Even though i surfed like a crab today.

^^^ oh Fark. That is seriously not good...

Unprotect the fuggers.

Legion said...

Unprotect the fuggers.

Come on Legion, don't sit on the fence. Tell us what you really think!

Zuke said...

Legion said...

Unprotect the fuggers.

Come on Legion, don't sit on the fence. Tell us what you really think!

Your outboard might be a bit big for an aggressive 4.5m fish, but I just can't relax in the water lately.

Legion said...

Zuke said...

Legion said...

Unprotect the fuggers.

Come on Legion, don't sit on the fence. Tell us what you really think!

Your outboard might be a bit big for an aggressive 4.5m fish, but I just can't relax in the water lately.

Yeah - I went out at a beachie yesterday close to where that clubbies' surf-ski got bitten in two... didn't hesitate to go out, but it did cross my mind more than a couple of times whilst paddling back out or waiting for a wave.

My mate and I were the third and second last to come in - leaving a young teenie out there alone. Thankfully, as I walked up the beach I saw him start to paddle in...

Lots of dark patches drifting past along the bottom today. Spooky.

jbshack said...
I think we've over fished and a imbalance has left us were we are now. But even more scared we could make it worse if we cull

Crock of sh1t JB. There is PLENTY of food for them.
Please explain how if we culled it could make it worse??? Makes absolutely no sense to me...

Ok I'll share with you why I believe they are in close to shore. It's the time of year. July through to Octoberish migrating species such as whales are on the move, big winter tailor are in close around reefs, salmon are on the move, demersals such as duwies and pinkies are in closer to shore rather than out deeper like in the summer months and the whites are following along. Fishing Saturday morning had half a dozen minky whales hanging around my boat for a good half an hour. My brother went fishing Friday night and had the same. They had to move because the whales would just not go away from the boat. I can garauntee that there would have been some big bities not to far away either.
After being protected for 13 years it is just not plausible to me that numbers have not increased. Dramatically.
There are loads of fish metro. Don't let anyone tell you different. You just need to know where to go.
I'm not an expert by any means. I'm only going off having grown up in Perth and being on, in and around the ocean my whole life.
Nobody knows for 100% why and nobody ever will.

On a different not coming in after my fish Saturday and there's a dude on a SUP paddling along the outer reefs of hillarys. Farkin pretty keen. Long paddle in if something goes wrong...

More of them, not scared of people and have now grown and learnt to associate boats/people with an easy feed IMO.

surferstu said...

Woodo said...

More of them, not scared of people and have now grown and learnt to associate boats/people with an easy feed IMO.

+1 that's it in a nutshell

Totally agree. Hard part is people will then feed them to stay so they can film the shark. Sharks are smart and sadly I think fisherman are not. If you get sharked sadly you need to move off. Not just sit there feeding them only to then later complain when sharks start to follow boats. Look at sambo jigging. It's now almost impossible to land a fish of the popular spots. You can even pick the sambos on bottom and the shark schools in between with a good sounder

Zuke said...

Woodo said...

More of them, not scared of people and have now grown and learnt to associate boats/people with an easy feed IMO.

So what do we do? With as much detail as possible please.

Here we go again...
I personally would like to see whites that come into populated beaches eradicated, whites that attack people and are then immediately followed destroyed and whites that menace boats got rid of. Last sshhnapper season whites were picking pinkies of peoples lines boatside in Cockburn sound. That's just not on. I know it's their ocean, their domain rah rah but people forget it's OUR ocean too.
I'm not really infavour of a massive cull, rather pick off the sharks that are coming into direct contact with humans.
Tagging? Expensive and difficult to do, and once again they are burleying up massively to get the sharks in, which then is teaching the sharks to associate boats/people with food isn't it...??
I'd like to see cage diving banned but that will never happen...
Netting beaches? Bit undecided. It wouldn't have prevented the majority of recent attacks.
Whatever our government decide to do they need to pull their finger out and get on with it. All their talk of we're going to do this where going to do that bullsh1t isn't resolving anything.

No worries mate

Noticed you have chimed in on the shark debate at last zuke. Of all people you must be one of the ones affected the most (with your offshore reef surfing). Has the number of sightings freaked you out and has it changed your approach to surfing yet?
It has definently changed mine. I will still surf offshore reefs but not early in the morning or late in the arvo ever again (mid day with a spear gun in each hand is all I can handle ha ha :-). And there are just some spots I won't even paddle out to anymore. My local outer reef is one of em.

Big, lumpy and offshore this morning with some bombs coming through at Trigg. Nice big clean drops with some holding up but you had to be patient with it being pretty random. No one else out either.