Feet up at Fingal Bay - video
Need another warning to keep your wits about you as we move deeper into autumn? This vid should do the trick. Shot a week ago at Fingal Bay, near Port Stephens, it shows Grey Nurse Sharks moving among a large school of mullet just metres off the beach.
Authorities closed the beach as the sharks fed on the schooling fish. And though Grey Nuse Sharks pose no threat to humans it's a not so subtle reminder of what goes on when the last of the warm water drives the school fish north.
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Why the dark Music?
Its great to see Grey Nurses back in numbers..
Sure i saw a white amungst em
This video remind's me of something silly thing I did once.
When i lived at Fraser Island, there was big schools of fish offshore like this on the outside bank, i couldn't cast far enough to reach them, so i went back got my board and gave the rod to my wife and paddled as far out as i could to throw my bait amongst the school.
Anyway i was almost at the school when a helicopter hovered over me with guys frantically waving me to get out of the water as apparently there was sharks feeding on the school i was trying to paddle into.
I did toss my bait out and paddled in, but id didn't catch anything and the missus was mad at me.
Pretty silly thing to do in hindsight but seemed a good idea at the time.
Indo,well that's how the boys started to catch whites off Stockton beach which isn't that far away from Fingal Bay......paddle their boards out and drop a bait same as what you were doing except they were catching white pointers and then releasing them .......
Indo, you are not the only one to paddle out and drop your bait to catch a shark. These blokes made a short (Tropfest) film on how they did it.
Fingal Bay here we go.
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Indo,
Once again you're an Animal! Classic!
There is an island just off the bay called Shark Island, who would of thought there'd actually be sharks in the area...
Indo, Me and old mate were waist deep in water walking across a Vicco reef to the drop off true grey light, very dark at least 30 mins before dawn when the surface of the water for 50 metres all around us exploded with fish like that video. Couldn't and didn't see a thing apart from fish but certainly put the wind up us. Plenty of other personal sea life stories about that reef, now I wait until there is at least some light in the sky.
Fingal bay,
Fantastic place, grew up surfing there, surfed my first waves there.
Interesting to note that there would be plenty of other sea life milling about.
pretty much guarantee that there are other types of sharks in there(in the footage).
They used to have the annual game fishing contest around easter. Man, they used to catch sharks so big they used to drag them in off the back of the boat, to the weigh in station at the dock at shoal bay. One year there was a tiger shark that was hanging from the crane/ dock winch, that was so long its head was resting on the dock.(been trying to find archive photos of it for a while.)
i spent countless days surfing out there with just me and my brother, sometimes i would be out there surfing solo. Salt-water-wine .