Kayaker and great white shark

[Houseplant]

Not my video. I don't normally post other people's videos, but worth a watch. A bit too close to home. I spent 3 years obsessed with kayak fishing and fished not too far away from the spot in the video. Also, a huge great white has been spotted in my backyard over the last few days. The area I fish all the time and sometimes dive!

 

 

[Penelope]

9 minutes ago, Houseplant said:

Not my video. I don't normally post other people's videos, but worth a watch. A bit too close to home. I spent 3 years obsessed with kayak fishing and fished not too far away from the spot in the video. Also, a huge great white has been spotted in my backyard over the last few days. The area I fish all the time and sometimes dive!

 

 

[pork chop]

It’s a fact there’s  been no great white shark kills while on land 😂

Edited yesterday at 12:31 by pork chop

[mel b3]

Well that would be the end of my kayaking career. 

I'm sitting on a chair thousands of Miles away, and I still almost xxxx myself 🥺.

Edited yesterday at 12:46 by mel b3

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Well I watched that, the lass in the film put some large live baits out. 

Then when Carcharodon carcharias turned up, she cut her lines and headed parallel with the shore.

Now I will admit, like Mel, I am sitting on a chair thousands of miles away and have no experience of fishing on the sea from a kayak.

But surely a move to the shoreline and then see what the shark does would have taken her out of danger far quicker?

[Rim Fire]

i would delete that vid before the mods see it  with the odd word or two in it i had a warning 

[mel b3]

56 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Well I watched that, the lass in the film put some large live baits out. 

Then when Carcharodon carcharias turned up, she cut her lines and headed parallel with the shore.

Now I will admit, like Mel, I am sitting on a chair thousands of miles away and have no experience of fishing on the sea from a kayak.

But surely a move to the shoreline and then see what the shark does would have taken her out of danger far quicker?

I mentioned a few weeks ago ( here or thl), about my first experience with a dolphin , whilst I was fishing on my kayak , with my legs dangling in the water.

That few seconds as that large grey fin zipped through the water towards me , took years off my life 🥺.

[islandgun]

1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Well I watched that, the lass in the film put some large live baits out. 

Then when Carcharodon carcharias turned up, she cut her lines and headed parallel with the shore.

Now I will admit, like Mel, I am sitting on a chair thousands of miles away and have no experience of fishing on the sea from a kayak.

But surely a move to the shoreline and then see what the shark does would have taken her out of danger far quicker?

Was she not a bloke ? As said I would have headed to rocks and hope there was a way out of the water, You would think there would be some sort of deterent like a banger you could use,  A few years back I had a Minke whale swim under my 16 ft boat [almost in touching range], its amazing to be that close to un-stoppable nature that has no fear of you, I was concerned it might come up under me and pitch me in the water,

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Yes, I know she's a bloke.

[islandgun]

3 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Yes, I know she's a bloke.

😁...well shes got bigger danglies than me

[Bigbob]

Wonder how long it took to go back fishing .?.

[mel b3]

5 minutes ago, Bigbob said:

Wonder how long it took to go back fishing .?.

It would have taken me a millisecond,  to decide that I would never ever ever , go kayaking again , ever ever , for the rest of my life ...  ever 😁.

The clean up operation in my pants might have taken a bit longer though ☺️

[Bigbob]

Second hand Kayak for sale needs a good clean LOL 

[mel b3]

2 minutes ago, Bigbob said:

Second hand Kayak for sale needs a good clean LOL 

😄😄😄😄

[Bigbob]

Might attract a better more expensive cliental LOL  

[Eyefor]

Many years ago (1970's) my younger brother and I were in Ullapool and took a 10ft dinghy out on Loch Broom to catch a few mackerel and a basking shark (with a wide open mouth the size of a tunnel) went underneath our dinghy.

Yes, I know it was filtering plankton. Yes I know they are supposed to be harmless - but we were off that water in record time and I am still not comfortable in any boat less that 30ft and with at least 3 feet of freeboard. 

That video made me sweat!

Edited 21 hours ago by Eyefor

[Penelope]

11 minutes ago, Bigbob said:

Second hand Kayak for sale needs a good clean LOL 

I'd 've hardly wanted to have been chumming.

[Bigbob]

9 minutes ago, Penelope said:

I'd 've hardly wanted to have been chumming.

Jaws has a lot to answer for dont think Jaws 2,3,4, 5 and 6 where in the same league 

[old man]

Sharks and cows scare me. Not encountered a shark other than a NZ view in the surf but cows, nope not for me.

[Bigbob]

3 minutes ago, old man said:

Sharks and cows scare me. Not encountered a shark other than a NZ view in the surf but cows, nope not for me.

Cows are fine unless they have calves .But horses kick and bite and the only think i know to look at is the ears going back flat to the head , And most farms seem to have a horse or two  about the place now 

I think Scotland's too cold for sharks though fortunately 

[old man]

1 minute ago, Bigbob said:

Cows are fine unless they have calves .But horses kick and bite and the only think i know to look at is the ears going back flat to the head , And most farms seem to have a horse or two  about the place now 

I think Scotland's too cold for sharks though fortunately 

Can't abide anything bigger than me really.

[Scully]

34 minutes ago, Eyefor said:

Many years ago (1970's) my younger brother and I were in Ullapool and took a 10ft dinghy out on Loch Broom on to catch a few mackerel and a basking shark (with a wide open mouth the size of a tunnel) went underneath our dinghy.

Yes, I know it was filtering plankton. Yes I know they are supposed to be harmless - but we were off that water in record time and I am still not comfortable in any boat less that 30ft and with at least 3 feet of freeboard. 

That video made me sweat!

We were erecting a building on the Isle of Man some years ago, and lodged in Peel overlooking the harbour.We came out of the pub one night a bit the worse for wear and went skinny dipping. 
Next morning we sat eating our breakfasts overlooking the beach, and right there where we’d been swimming last night was a huge Basking Shark. 
To meet a Seal would have been bad enough in the pitch black water, but that Shark as harmless as they are, would have had me pooping myself! 

[ditchman]

jesus is that a fella................im not into LGBT fishing

[TIGHTCHOKE]

29 minutes ago, ditchman said:

jesus is that a fella................im not into LGBT fishing

I think the correct term is "undecided"             

[BRYAN3]

Well she had no problem with snagging fishes with hooks and sticking spikes through them and letting them trail along helpless to feed bigger fishes.  Not so happy being the one chased down.