This is why you stand well away from the water when fishing in some parts of Oz

[Justin]

Wow!!

[Astar20]

??  With wildlife like that I'm scared of the wildlife than getting mugged! No need to conceal carry when you have animals like that! 

[El Presidente]

1 minute ago, Ken Gargett said:

and with the greatest respect, jungle jim, define fishing among the crocs. would that be sturdy boats with two blokes armed to shoot any poor reptile that happened to swim by? 

2 blokes rowing in a  3 metre tinny. Fly fishing for Barra. 2 guides on the elevated bank shooting crocs if they came too close. 

I stopped doing it after the day we left some barra carcases on the bank and filmed what came out. They were dinosaurs and I had no idea crocs of that size were in that water. 

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, El Presidente said:

2 blokes rowing in a  3 metre tinny. Fly fishing for Barra. 2 guides on the elevated bank shooting crocs if they came too close. 

I stopped doing it after the day we left some barra carcases on the bank and filmed what came out. They were dinosaurs and I had no idea crocs of that size were in that water. 

i have a photo at home in an old book of a croc shot around 100 years ago up around there (rob, remind me to show you if i have not already). it had been taking cattle. it is described as sixteen feet. the woman, hubbie was away when this all went down, who shot it is sitting on the snout. unless she is a hobbit, there is no possible way it is only sixteen feet. shown it to numerous people. none guess under 20. most are around 25 feet. some even more. that is one big croc. and you'd have to assume there was a chance it was swimming around up there before the first white settlement. 

now if we go back to the strike zone theory, and one bodylength, you would not want to be near the water at all. 

[Ken Gargett]

 

this is the only picture of 'Krys', allegedly shot in 1958 up in north Qld. 

28 and a half feet long. allegedly. there is no other evidence (there is a statue but i am not sure that counts). i never want to meet something like that. 

 

 

[BoliDan]

Out here we have bears and mountain lions, but I've never seen em while fishing. At least they are in plain sight. Can't imagine those things hiding under water, invisible and near you at any given time. Also, that would have been a hell of a catch. Sucks, I'll drink a beer to your loss. 

[Corylax18]

7 minutes ago, BoliDan said:

Out here we have bears and mountain lions, but I've never seen em while fishing. At least they are in plain sight. Can't imagine those things hiding under water, invisible and near you at any given time. Also, that would have been a hell of a catch. Sucks, I'll drink a beer to your loss. 

Mountain Lions don't hide? If you've spent any appreciable amount of time in the Colorado wilderness, you've had Lion eyes on you. I see tracks almost every time I go hunting, but I've never once seen the Cat that made them. Its spooky.

You're 100% right about the bears though, you can hear/smell them coming from a mile away. That and they usually run away as soon as they scent/see you. 

[BoliDan]

Nah. I dont fly fish so I'm never really surrounded by Woodlands. The fishing lakes around tend to be wide open clearings.

[Duxnutz]

Crazy crocs up in Northern Oz. I remember delivering the mail out on the WA/NT border to a cattle station and seeing something that had to be the length of the airplane (C210) I was flying with a horse by the neck and thrashing it about like a leaf.