Tiger shark caught at almo jetty /woodys

Interesting you say that westozwind I was watching a dock on Nat Wild the other night on the supposed shark epidemic in Sydney. They caught and tagged 11 Bullsharks in Sydney Harbour in one night and tracked them. They are there all the time weather we want to believe it or not and most of the time not that far from what we are doing. I don't quite get the shark histeria that exists???.personally I am terrified of being attacked by a shark every time I get in the water but statistically I should be more terrified in getting in my car every time I want to go kiting. We can believe what we want to but most shark attacks are random acts made out of curiosity and nothing more???.they are not human killers, they are fish we just happen to be in the water and thats where they are???.

I've seen plenty of sharks down at beach 1 already this season. I don't think anyone really kids themselves at Woodies, everyone knows its a sharky area. With all the noobs body dragging around out there i feel fairly safe anyhow.

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mattyj said..

Who cares. This has nothing to do with kiteboarding pal

And it's on the General Thread, not in the WA thread!

There used to be a Fishing Thread on Seabreeze if I recall?

Like Sebol Says
Seabreeze is WA Owned and Made.....Cheers Laurie!
Vico's whinge somewhere else, like the vic forum.

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mattyj said..

Keep it in the wa section then. It seems the general discussion thread is clogged with issues from wa

Bee stings kill more people in Australia each year than sharks. Is the WA government going to cull bees too?

I hope they removed the shark and didn't kiss it and throw it back in....

A lot of people are anti culling and no animal should die in vein. Their meat should be used and the sharks that are deep in the ocean need be left alone.

People deserve to utilize our coastline and have prominent threats removed. People must come first, family friendly species second (including great white food of dolphins, sea turtles, rays and seals), and man eaters third.

This is a great step by WA government...

Secondly, I was doing a backroll kiteloop at beach 3 last Tuesday the 3rd of November, and looked at the water as I lifted a meter off it during the backroll and saw a perfect 2m shark shadow underneath me in 1.5 metre deep water with the shark 60cm or so below the surface and was VERY happy to land and kite away.

I know he was PROBABLY minding his own business, but again less sharks = less risk for innocent people who share common ground with them. Our place is close to shore and their place is deeper at sea.

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kiteboy dave said...
That's a small & boring shark. Pointless thread.

From an anglers perspective its actually not a bad shore based noah really. I've caught a few bronzies that size off the northern suburbs beaches and they are great fun.

I've hooked some monsters along the south west and around Shark Bay and even after an hour, you've really got no chance landing them.

Ammo jetty has always been reliable for sharks that size

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NoBS said..

westozwind said..
(I'm looking forward to no parking hassles and an empty beach ;)

Now that Mrs Elemental has stopped parking in disabled spots and her school has been moved on.. You may be correct!

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kiteboy dave said..
That's a small & boring shark. Pointless thread.

Agreed Dave.

do you alarmist types realise people catch sharks off the beach in WA every night of the week?
And a tiger will not normally go for people and this one is small?

FFS stop scaremongering.

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topline said...
If Bruce thinks its my time then that's fine it will be my time.

^^ shark debate is as simple as that

This is not news to anyone who has used Woodies for any length of time, its ok dont worry about, i worry about it enough for everyone, but i still go in the water fully aware of the risk. Shark sighting are super common at Woodies.

They used to swim the bait out from that jetty years ago, they dont anymore, either people are a bit smarter these days or the fisho's know something we dont. I would imagine as soon as there are 5-10 crew skimming across the top of the water the noahs would be long gone anyway, hopefully.

WA = Quantity, QLD = Quality

hey, nothing against tassie (-:
we have the big whites here as well

This wa ownership of seabreeze is actually payback for Victoria owning the footy when it's supposed to be a national comp. apologies to nsw, qld, tasisie, sa etc. Wa doesn't get to dominate much except supporting the Australian economy :)