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Subject: Re: Tiger Sharks

Author:
Jim Morris

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Date Posted: 939916316PDT
In reply to: Glen Walling 's message, "Tiger Sharks" on 939903045PDT

Hi Glen,

What part of Australia are you located?

> G'day Jim,
> The biggest Tiger I have seen landed in this area was
> 13' but there are a lot of big tigers in this area
> probably because of it's remoteness and sparse
> population.
> We see a number of 12 - 14' tigers off the jetty in
> town. The largest tiger I have seen was HUGE it was
> difficult to judge exactly as we were fishing off a 75
> foot cliff but the bait it was following was 10 inches
> long and when just in front of the sharks nose the
> tiger was 3 to 4 times that lenght between the eyes. I
> have seen a 10' tiger caught off the jetty here and it
> was about 14" between the eyes. From the top of the
> cliff we estimated about 17" and I feel that was
> fairly conservative.
> Tigers have a bad reputation here but the vast
> majority of our possitively identified killers are
> whalers.
> The only cases I know of in Aussie waters of people
> being totally eaten have been Whites with skin divers
> around seal colonies (bit silly I reckon).
> As to the swimmers, I would get out of the water. Not
> that I'm overly paronoid about being eaten but I don't
> think it is worth the chance.
> Glen

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Tiger Sharks	Glen Walling	939986285PDT