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I can concur Great Whites are the most spectacular of Fishes, like a huge marlin they are not frighten easily and has heaps of tenacity.
We in Richards bay South Africa thought that we would never ever see them there because of the water being to warm.
Huge mistake, these apex torpedoes or rather U-boats are as frequent as the local bottom fish.
We fished a Comp 8years back and had a real close visit by a White shark, so much so that we ended up wet on a 28" boat. As it came to claim a 20lb grouper. Man this was never the less a scary than a wake up call. We often just for fun jumped of the boat to cool down. No More.
On the other hand this waked up a urge in me to start doing research and making fun with the sharks, and believe me we have thousands of them on our stretch of coast. There’s no shortage or dwindling numbers on shark in our water.
After lots of reading, looking at the Discovery shows and chatting to my buddy’s back home. I paid more attention to the water around the boat and started looking for White's on ever trip out. One day out on the Skiff I had a Shark come up next to me and looking at me as if he wants to tell me that this is his territory. Man I all most shit my self, lost all the courage and Balls I have build up in a flash. This guy came so close to me I jabbed him with the 7"fishing pole, did note scare him or at least do any thing to improve the now very present lump on my rear end. He hanged around for about 10min coming around the small boat on both side to check it out. I eventually managed to get a bottle out of the hatch and tied a small 5/0 hook on a 3m 80lb length and to the bottle. Hooked a couple of sardine and chucked it in front of him thinking I'll make it easy for him. Nope, he swam right past it as if he was not satisfied with it. I then took a 3lb fish from the hold and did the same. Man he came so smooth, just open that huge feaken steel chewing vise and gulped that small morsel like it was a little peace of candy.
At this time is seems that a second lump has appeared in my jockson my small 14",6 skiff on my own with a freaken huge Biting machine very close. I held on to the bottle to set the hook, and then@$#%$&^ man O man that supper charge 4foot wide blade at the end came to life with one thrust and a wash of white water like a 350F taking off. Bottle went over and disappeared in to the 4fa water like it was tied to 500 ton of steel never to be seen again well I was not going to stick around no more..
At this stage my action where like those cartoons on the TV, man there was no stopping is my one movement from getting the anchor on the boat starting the motor and turning the skiff for home. Some line’s still in the water gear come rolling down the deck to wards the transom and a 55Suzi screaming like a Kamikazi in a death dive. 5 Miles later I get my self to grips and reflect on what I have just done. Slowing the boat down and take a cigarette from the tackle box and smoking it like there was not going to be another.
All tough this was the maddest thing I have ever attempted I have lured a great deal from it . It apears that these sharks are no as stupid as every one thinks and they do very good assessment of what’s happening before they bite. Well unless your a seal or look like one. I have had 3 more such encounters but this time on the larger boat and on all the occasions I did the same and the only thing that really scared them away from the boat was the 2 l bottle trick. I’ll tell you one thing it sure is nice to sit on a larger boat when you teasing this Sharks and it beats the best comedian to see my buddy's crap them selves when these U-boat come to inspect the boat..
Well there mite be some of you that don’t agree with my scaring trick but maybe this would learn the sharks to stay clear off boats, they sure learn. Just watch the shows.
Below is a report from our local newspaper.
It apears that our white's leave the area durring the summer from about Nov to May.
http://www.zululandobserver.co.za/Pages/f36story7.html
TWO Great White Sharks were caught in the nets off Zinkwazi in separate incidents this week.
The Natal Sharks Board’s Geremy Cliff confirmed that the first shark, weighing in at 900kg and 3,7m in length (excluding tail), was found in the nets on Monday and was tagged and released.
‘Unfortunately the same shark must have swum back into the nets late on Monday or in the early hours of Tuesday and died,’ said Cliff.
He said a second smaller Great White - at 3,3m and 720kg - was found in the nets on Wednesday morning in the same spot as the first in a very weak condition and died shortly afterwards.
‘While it is more likely to find the Great White in Cape waters, it is important to remember these sharks travel huge distances.
‘One Great White was tracked and it swam from South Africa to Australia and back again.
‘They do seem to find the Tugela Bank attractive and will venture inshore and have been spotted by divers and fishermen from time to time,’ said Cliff.
He added that the two sharks found this week were larger than the ones normally spotted.
The last big Great White, at 3,8m and
1 160kg, was caught off the Richards Bay northern beaches in 2002.
Cliff confirmed that the bitten bodyboard sent from a Richards Bay bodyboarder to the Sharks Board in Durban, had undergone further testing and it was concluded that the bite marks on the board were from a Great White.
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