Thread: Big sharks of the beach...looks like a good season!

Originally Posted by viper

One of the best stories I was told was by a Kayak fisherman back in the early 90s. He was fishing in the Manukau harbour ( Auckland ) . He was snapper fishing with his burly bag tied to his anchor rope.
The fishing had been good but suddenly went quiet, he was in a big kayak and parked a 100 mtrs or so from shore.
Suddenly his Yak took off and down with him hanging on for dear life. He reckoned he let go of the kayak at about 10ft underwater . He hit the top like a missile , grabbed a lung fill of air and set a new 100 mtr freestyle record to the shore.
He never got the kayak back and from then on never tied his burley bag to the anchor rope.
Plenty of Bronzies in the Manukau..... even bigger Great Whites.

Great story and believable. I've always thought people quite brave/stupid to hang a burley bag off a kayak! There are other ways of doing it.

Use to do the Counties shark hunt every year from the Glenbrook boat ramp 20 years ago. There are some REALLY big bitty things in the Manukau. I don't swim much in salt water.