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Subject: Re: Tiger Sharks

Author: Jim Morris

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] 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 [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Tiger Sharks	Glen Walling	939986285PDT