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(News.com.au) ROBERT Hogg, his son James and a friend have had a terrifying brush with a 4m Great White Shark.
The trio were enjoying a "relaxing day in the boat" last week at Middle Beach, about 40km north of Adelaide, when a shark launched out of the water about 3.30pm and tore into a bait bag attached to their 5.4m fibreglass boat….
Mr Hogg described his run-in with the great white as "a bit of a shock".
"We felt a bit of a jerk and then the boat sort of started pulling sideways," Mr Hogg said.
"It was bloody huge.”
Not anything you need to worry about on trout streams or bass lakes, though I have heard of pike and muskellunge chomping on digits dangled in the water. Also of snapping turtles drawn to people’s legs hanging down while they ride in float tubes. If you wet wade any distance in the Huron river, you're likely to pick up a few (sometimes more than a few) leeches A shark, though, is another level of danger altogether. Once while I was in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, I was having a blast riding an inflatable raft in the surf, getting knocked in occasionally, until my father reminded me we had been catching small sharks (2-3’) in those waters all week. I went ashore. Why go home minus a toe?
Questions of breathing (and sharks) aside, I don't know if subsurface waters are necessarily more hostile to humans than any other place they're likely to go, but to me at least, they do seem bit creepier. There is more risk of getting out just slightly less whole, physcially, than you were when you went in. Fortunately, the spiritual or emotional effects of fishing trend in the opposite direction.
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