I believe there have been sharks (can't remember for certain if they were great whites) spotted as far up the river as colleges crossing (which near Mt Crosby)

spotted as far up the river as colleges crossing (which near Mt Crosby)

 

that'd be a bull shark....i saw a doco on sharks on world around us. The bull shark is the only shark that can survive in fresh water (up to 2yrs...these are also the sharks in the brissy river & gold coast canals)

 

great whites have almost been hunted to extinction...people think they are "the" man-eaters when in actual fact its the bull shark..the great white comes in at number 4 or something

 

another useless fact: the movie Jaws was spawned from an incident in 1918 when 1 person was eaten & 2 seriously injured in a canal in sticksville by what they assumed was a great white...we now know today that is was a bull shark

just got back from our little fishing adventure.

 

went from adelaide to innes national park which is right at the bottom of yorke peninsula and quite isolated (surfers would recognise the name chinamans beach)

 

anyway we started at a place called stenhouse bay which has a massive jetty at the bottom of these cliffs (there are no houses there or anything, its an abandoned mining area) but it was a bit too choppy so nothing there

 

later on that day we headed over to a place called cable beach and did some pretty dangerous rock climbing to get to this little bay where we caught nothng at all. moved on to another spot just before pondalowie bay where we managed to scale down a 15-20 metre cliff to some rocks (it was quite calm) and we caught a coulple of little weedy things... still not much action

 

decided to head west because the wind was coming from the north east and we stopped at point turton for a bit of jetty fishing. hauled in about 15 squid and a couple of other little fish before we dcided to call it an evening. woke up and it was a bit too windy so we headed up to ardrossan on the eastern side of the peninsula (about 1.5 hours away) and went for squid off the jetty there but there was no biting really, though i did get one decent bite but i ripped his tentacle clean off his body i was that excited!

 

anyhow, about 15 medium to above average sized squid was the result!

when i go fishing (once a month) i go fishing from a boat.. u can't fish from the shoreproperly.. i go over hte bar.. to tanglooma and peel island.. all good fishing