I am no going swimming in Islay again! ! !

"SHARK hunter Hamish Currie poses with his massive prize catch - a vicious 300lb JAWS.

Determined Hamish battled with the menacing 8ft beast for 45 minutes before finally landing the monster.

And last night Hamish warned there are hundreds more terrifying porbeagle sharks - like the one he caught just 100 yards off the coast of Islay in Argyll - prowling British waters.

He said: "It was a hell of a battle - 45 minutes of sheer hell. She didn't come on board easy.

"The porbeagle is a very vicious and aggressive shark. She is the closest relative to Jaws - the great white shark.

"They're a hungry bunch. They have even been known to try to eat through a boat's fuel lines.

"If you consider that was the first time I targeted that area and I found six altogether, then you have to say there must be a lot of them out there." Hamish, of Cushendall, Co Antrim, was fishing on his charter boat Predator with two pals when he hooked the huge creature.

And the 51-year-old claimed they caught sharks which were even BIGGER than the giant fish he was snapped with.

Hamish added: "Out of this six I caught, I think two of them were even larger than the one I took the picture with. I knew there were sharks in those waters and I wanted to prove a point.

"I just took a quick picture with him then threw him back in to fight another day.

"I would never kill a fish like that - I'm a conservationist."



Now you only have to look at the pictures to guess what this shark went through to prove Hamish's point.

If I did that to a farm animal, I would - rightly - be put in jail. :mad: I think I am going to twist Hamish's tail a bit.


(The text colours are mine. The pic is the Sun's)
 
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I caught a porbeagle off Looe in Cornwall when I was 11.

Adopt the Aussie system of always keeping three people between you and the sharks when swimming.
 
There's plenty of porbeagle off Cornwall, and elsewhere, they don't come inshore and they don't eat swimmers/yotties (yet:D). A friend of mine made a (brief) living from them - until the tree-huggers started leaving death-theats on his answering machine!

I'm no fan of "sport" fishing, particularly the bigguns, but as far as I'm concerned they ar as valid food-stocks as any other fish. Subject to quota, just like everything else.
 
Major Catastrophe said:
Adopt the Aussie system of always keeping three people between you and the sharks when swimming.
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Or just go to a beach with a lot of surfers out behind the break, they will always go for them first, particuarly during the very early morning.

On one particuarly nasty occasion, a very good friend of my wife was taken as she dived on a seal colony. Her husband had already made his decent, but she had been delayed.
Her five young children were on the boat at the time, and they only ever found her foot.
An absolute tragedy....
 
SandTiger said:
I think you'll find that it is already being done, but they are just too stupid...

Here's a link to their forum thread, where they can't even answer the simplest of questions - http://boatandshore.com/index.php?topic=346.0
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Wow, it looks like an overgrown one of those almost extinct spurrydoggy thingys, a biggy though, it must almost scrape 100lbs on proper real world scales, nice fish, it looks pretty badly beat up though which is a shame.........:-(

Ps....you sound somewhat familiar Mr Tiger........:-)
 
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Wow, it looks like an overgrown one of those almost extinct spurrydoggy thingys, a biggy though, it must almost scrape 100lbs on proper real world scales, nice fish, it looks pretty badly beat up though which is a shame.........:-(

Ps....you sound somewhat familiar Mr Tiger........:-)
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How nice to find you here, your hybrid is performing well, I take it? :D

I would suggest it is beyond beat up and there lies the irony of this pretend 'conservation' malarkey. A hunter has a primary duty to the welfare of their quarry which includes not returning a dying wild animal to the wild.

It would have been far more humane to dispatch the fish and eat it.
 
How nice to get some info here,but I need some rest on swimming
right now....



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