"I've been fishing guiding on Sydney Harbour for 28 years and this is the worst I've ever seen it."
And you thought I was being shrill. Admit it, up until this moment right now you thought I was carrying on like an Alzheimeric old bitty clanging the gong in our town square, screaming “The sharks are coming! The sharks are coming!” when it was only just shadows upon the water. Only Nick Carroll out for his morning 100 kilometer paddle race.
Well, first they came for my once bucolic North County, San Diego then they came for once popular tourist destination Cape Cod, Mass. and now they are at your doorstep, Doubting Thomas, bumping sailboats, terrifying kayakers and severing heads for the shark-pocalypse has arrived in Sydney’s famed harbour.
Oh the prehistoric beasts have no manners whatsoever, and also no impulse control, man-eating whenever they feel the slightest urge and we must not delay in reading the latest horrors straight from the pages of the principled Daily Mail. We must go straight away.
Craig McGill, a respected guide and owner of fishing company Fishabout, said there are more sharks in the harbour than he has even seen before.
And the recent influx is having a devastating result with gory pictures showing half-eaten fish and even a shark severed in two found in the harbour’s waters.
Experts say reports of increased sightings are due to warmer waters allowing the sharks to come close to shore as they follow fish to eat.
Talking about the recent increase, Sydney-based Mr McGill told Daily Mail Australia: ‘There’s been a huge influx of sharks seen this year.
‘Yesterday I saw a hammerhead and then spotted a shark attacking a fish in the harbour.
‘I also recently saw a terrified kayaker being harassed by shark in the harbour,’ he added.
He said finding severed fish in the harbour has become regular, especially after sharks feed at dawn and dusk.
‘I’ve been fishing guiding on Sydney Harbour for 28 years and this is the worst I’ve ever seen it,’ he said.
The selfish bastards have not only completely overrun the harbour, they’re menacing Sydney’s northern beaches as well. Just yesterday a pleasure sailor was out mere meters away from Manley Point when he spotted an ominous fin jutting out of the water. Upon closer inspection he realized it was a juvenile Great White and nearly 1.5 meters long.
He was reported as saying, “‘Holy shit, that is a baby great white…” and when asked responded, “It looked like an exact mini replica of a full grown white, with that crazy black eye and gaping mouth.”
To be honest, “that crazy black eye and gaping mouth” sounds a lot like Nick Carroll out for his evening 100 kilometer paddle race but, unlike you, I always believe in the shark crier.
More as the story develops.
Surely not out at manly point yesterday…. I did a 2km swim through there
No, this happened at Manley Point apparently
fake news
Found the pic from yesterday, but this was on the harbour side of manly https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Need to change the company name to (morebig)Fishabout™
“…he’s a crazy fuck.”
-Dru Kampion on Chas Smith.
Something conveniently not addressed is that there are probably more sharks. All Australian Fisheries stock assessments indicate shark stocks are very sustainable. Some academics that make a living from saving sharks highlight issues with tigers or hammerheads using dodgy data BUT fishing sector groups at the toothface would suggest entirely otherwise. After all why would academics agree with increased sharks as it would be a threat to their business model (of getting grants to save sharks).
The ” toothface” reference is very clever
I just made it up. There is no Patent. Go right ahead and use it. I have 50 stitches from shark bites in a fisheries career and 3 broken footbones. It happened, I did what I did they did what they did.
Fucks me off. Scientists and pollyticians never listen to fishermen !
Oh yea in a lip service kinda way. Any info we give to them is treated as anecdotal and tainted with vested interest.
Fucken womble cunts pushing their own barrow.
Glad I’m out of it now but it can still fuck me off and onya for being matter of fact about it.
I did what I did coz they did what they did. Fucken A !
Thats a good summary. Please do not give up and back up groups as they need to put their case.
I do what I can for the young blokes.
But the reality is – once ya leave comm fishing you’re like month old bait.
No one loves ya ! A cryogenic relic from the past …. which is pretty accurate in my case, hahahahar
That last line holds for all of us
I don’t listen to fishermen. notorious liars. fish get bigger with every beer.
After decades of research into coastal pelagics and hundreds of thousands of dollars funded research …. the commercial fishermen were correct. Beer was not involved. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
oh. commercial fishermen. my bad, I was referring to my dads piss head mates type fishermen.
Which would be worse, 100’s of Great White Sharks invading Sidney Harbour, or 100’s of paddle racing Nick Carroll’s invading anywhere?
Including on here?
Well, here ain’t just “anywhere”.
“Everything will be fine.”- Reunion Island
oh no did they have south african tattoos on them?
Buried in the lede = warmer than normal water. I.e. global warming is fucking with habitats. Welcome to the new normal.
Also buried is how chas is terrified of both; prone paddle-boarding and NC.
Kill em all
A fishing guide for the Sydney Harbor? What is he supposed to catch, Chlamydia?
since they ditched commercial fishing Sydney Harbour is full of kingfish
are they yellowtail kingfish or hamachi ? Is it amberjack? yum
seriola grandis. Yellowtail kingfish.
I think, just called yellowtail in USA?
there are also amberjack and Samson fish,(also members of the seriola family)
I still chuckle at my own ignorance always but also from time to time as it relates to your moniker. Longtom. For a full year plus I thought you were claiming penis length.
that was a pal who got attacked by a longtom in Lennox lagoon, made the front page of the local paper. He ended up an ice addict and macheted his finger off in front of his parents.
How’d it get in the lake?
Sounds bullshit
Cause it’s fresh
onya Bex. thats Lake Ainsworth ya knob. blind mullet the scariest fish in there.
Lennox Lagoon, in front of town, thats where them longtoms lurk.
Still waiting for one to nail Carcass thru the eyesocket
Near the boat channell
Thats a lugga?
Ours are different in Sydney.
Is this fresh “lake” you’re referring to Sydney Harbour?
On the Atlantic coast they say Kingfish. But it’s really a king mackerel.
The jacks- seriola grandis are southern pacific. Seriola quinqueradiata are Japan and Hawaii in the northwest pacific. We call them Hamachi or Yellowtail. Real similar but I found a couple pics. The first pic is southern seriola grandis.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I thought jacks were used to name the trevally species (caranx sp.) , at least on the east coast of USA.
I knew they called kingfish what we call Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus semifasciatus).
Correct on jacks.
When the Spanish went to the New world they encountered a huge ‘mackerel’ with teeth then called the Spanish mackerel. We have 5 species in Australian waters the best known and biggest in the world is the barrow barred Spanish mackerel.
Longtom can be accidentally dangerous when going aerial. I had 5 stitches in an arm from one in a coastal NSW lake, I saw a Torres Strait friend get major head injuries and there are records from the Port Moresby area of jumping longtom penetrating the bodies of fishermen.
The southern yellowtail amberjack, yellowtail kingfish or great amberjack is of the genus Seriola and is classified within the jack family, Carangidae, of which includes the trevally jacks, bluefin jack, bluefin kingfish, bluefinned crevalle, blue ulua, omilu and spotted trevally pompanos, jack mackerels, runners, and scads.
Jacks, with all their sub species, are just a different genus of the Carangidae family of which southern pacific yellowtail kingfish and hamachi all belong. Hence the often used designation of the aussie yellowtail as an amberjack.
Jacks are any of numerous species of fishes belonging to the family Carangidae (order Perciformes). The name jack is applied collectively to the family.
I’m pretty sure you’ve seen this from the NW Hawaiian isles but it’s worth posting here if not. We call these white ulua.
https://youtu.be/h4pxLHG0Wzs
I hadn’t seen that.
Awesome ! Cheers.
in the US the king mackerel is really the “king Spanish mackerel Scomberomorus cavalla”. In a way flip Florida around and you have a comparable pattern with narrow barred Spanish mackerel, a peninsula up against a land mass/deep water body being the same thing for a coastal species with a narrow pass between, in Australias it case generates sub stock.
Scombermorus semifasiatus in Australia is the broad barred or grey Spanish mackerel.
I tagged a few tens of thousand of the group and processed way more around northern Australia
Heaps around the harbour atm https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I thought I read Sydney harbour is polluted to the point the fish are diseased and uneatable?
Yes…shhhhh
I love the Aussie’s . Dumb and Dumber down under.
I just had a Google and the Aussie’s have marked a line on a map under the Sydney harbour bridge.
All fish west of it are polluted toxic poison.
All fish east good to eat!
Very clever Australian fish not to swim over the line?
Seriously. Every village has a idiot but what’s the odds finding 20 million all living on the one island?
haha fuck man, stinging summary of our intellect! We aren’t all dumb btw, our smartest minds have trained the toxic fish to stay the fuck out of the eastern part of the Harbour.