Awesome footage. How's the one that slams the boat hahaha

 Geez like a pack of bloody blowies just a smidge bigger .. 

 those sharks remember you from the fishing days ralph!!!

Just comn up to give you a love tap!!

Who was on the boat w you? Connor?

 Jeez they looked big!!! Any guesses size wise?

 Are they what jeff calls thickskins, they were eating deep diving rapalas on my last trip, amazing stuff

 Maybe should of tried free spooling it so the sail might had a chance to get away 

great footage tho 

wish we had sharks galore in melbourne 

cunse of things!

I heard Andrew Roland on Karl Langdon's 882 programme on saturday morning, saying they have started working with fisheries WA to look at options to start reducing shark numbers in the north west.

he said they've both noticed a massive increase in numbers since the ban that started in (I think he said) 2007, which was more of an "incredible recovery rate" of the sharks numbers. I personally never witnessed any decline in their numbers!!

either way, I think it means they'll be opening the fishery again, or at the very least, removing the ban.

 , struth 

This Shark situation is getting out of hand

More fish are being lost to the Tax man then getting into the boat

Shark attacks on Surfers with jet skis around

It is a shame that my kids in 5 years probablly wont be able to fish or swim in our beautiful ocean

damm,

I love the text "wait for it" then the expletive comment, i thought it was for that it was so fitting HAHA, then i remembered the motor bit.

 Tangles, remember when we did that pre-season breeding stock survey for Fisheries? The researcher was gobsmacked by the number and size of sharks we accumulated within a few days of not moving the pots far each day. And this was when they were first spruiking "these things are endangered" line. We were telling them they were looking in the wrong places. Wish i could find that video we took, where one tried to eat the camera  That was Noeleen driving, Connor had been and gone earlier in the trip.

They had him before I had a chance to free spool, anyway we try that a lot with mackerel and it doesnt work very often.

No, they weren't thickskins--they are generally a smaller shark, quite distinctive with their large dorsals and wide pectorals, I do have them on video from a previous trip.These were bronze whalers, about as big as they get. 3 metres or more at a guess.

Sharks are really ruining the place, and I blame both the ban and the sanctuary zones. The zones mean fishing is more concentrated, and the sound of an outboard is like ringing the dinner bell. It is very noticeable that, if you have a spot very close to a boundary, and a long way from where everyone else fishes, sharks are just not an issue. Little blacktips up to 1.4 metres can be good fun, as they behave rather like a mackerel. Any bigger and they are just hard work. Oceanic White Tips are just plain scary, very aggressive will chase released mackerel around leaping clear of the water like a great white--and we are talking a 3 metre shark. I know a bloke up there, good experienced fisherman working from a dinghy, he gave up on trolling this year after losing 8 mackerel/wahoo and associated lures on the trot. I kept him fed with fish by giving him some of the half-shares we were sometimes getting back.

And don't get me started on Potato Cod fish thieving bastards.

I'm doing up a video of the whole trip, probably post it tomorrow.

 unfortunate lose! Shit happens, last one hitting prop would have seen the SS prop as another fish ha?

hope you get the next vid up...interesting stuff

 and thay was what 2004/2005 I thinkn they were like flies then!

remember you nearly lost yr videohehe! 

Well you knw mate fisheries do knw everything about everything even when the fishermen who see it everyday knw whats going on!

God forbid a comm fisho who works the area everyday telling fisheries they are wrong!!

Weve got 35 of em comn uin cpl months for canoeing god im gona have sum fun w them on the tour!!!

That's a bloody scary situation, 1 of those sharks would IMO have to be close 3 1/2 metres going on the size it presents on the video. Lucky you didn't have a transducer bitten of the back of the boat, assuming you have one fixed to the transom.

 He could've bitten off the 83/200 CHIRP off the back and I would have said good riddance  useless POS. But that's another story. I agree with the size guess, I reckon the biggest were 3.5 metres. The sobering part is that that stretch of water actually hasa lot  more dinghy fisherman trolling it that larger boats--the South Lefroy mob nearly all fish from 12 foot tinnies and they work that area in droves when they aren't out bottom bashing in 100 metres. A shunt like that on the back of a 12 footer could see two blokes in the water in the midst of that carnage. 

Anyone on here know anyone camping fishing along there? Pass this on.

 Now you have started the transducer story I think you need to finish it.

Now you have started the transducer story I think you need to finish it.   Unhappy with the quality of returns. I made the mistake of mounting it low on the vee, when i was going to be operating a lot off a beach, so it got pushed around and all the pathetic little fiddly mounted bits were destroyed, but even when it was aligned properly, returns were weak. Put the gain up a bit, blank  out with noise. In desperation, connected the old xducer up--belonged to an LC-95 MT (? must check name) 90's Lowrance LCD Monochrome jobbie which came with the boat. This actually gave a very good picture, but I needed an upgradeable GPS with downloadable marks so I bought an Elite-7 HDI. The old trannie gave a much stronger picture ( selected generic 83/200 in Installation) but lost downscan ( no loss, IMO) and temp. The whole plot is much sturdier as well.

Someone on Ausfish suggested I look at an American forum, dissatisfaction with standard supplied xducers is rife, much better options available.

Nice vid

Bloody Sharks!!!

 full feeding frenzy, solid too.

 Should have tossed Mick Fanning in to sort em out...

 Too soon..

 Saw some massive whalers last night giving the fishos a hard time up here at Groote Eylandt last night. Got to a stage where you had to give up as you couldn't land a thing, even the kids fishing 200lb sash cords couldn't get their fish in quick enough.