Marligator wrote: I know a number of people who say they have seen "thresher" sharks in close along beaches (especially Papamoa and Pukehina) and some have taken photos. The ones in photos were all big bronzies in very shallow water with a lot of dorsal and 3 feet or so of tail out of the water. To many people because the tail is long they automatically think it is a thresher. I suspect the vast majority of thresher shark sightings in shallow water are actually just big bronzies. |
Legacy wrote: I saw something I thought was really unusual , speculated it may have been ill or something . I’ve caught a few threshers game fishing ( as well as blue and mako sharks ) and in the harbour I’ve caught a few large bronze whalers and white sharks as well as numerous small sharks BUT I’m not sure why I bother posting when two people who weren’t there are saying it was probably a bronze whaler . I’ll not bother any more-it’s all way too negative for me . |
Marligator wrote: I have never seen a White Pointer, although a mate (Fitty on here) saw one 2 weeks ago just outside the Bowentown bar about 8ft long and he estimated at about 250kg, like a barrel he said. It had a tag in it and the pectoral fin was damaged, if anybody sees it or knows who tagged it can you contact JohnH on here or myself. The only really big sharks I have seen was 3 bigggg Tigers on the remains of a Whale out off Toots years ago. They were all 12-15+ feet and who knows how much they weighed. Wynn Going on Tuturangi fought one for 1.5 hrs before the line broke close to the boat and he said it was longer than the width of Tuturangi which had a 14 foot beam and he wouldn't give an estimate of the weight, he just had no idea, it was the biggest shark he had ever seen.
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smudge wrote: Here's an account of our GW encounter. A couple of things possibly the result of 'artistic licence' but pretty much factual. This story was related to Peter Jessup by Tiny coe who witnessed it all: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10381556 |
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