Flirting with Death

Morning Doug.

Is the dog back in his kennel?? LOL

These guys in the photo were the same ones that I told you about, they were walking across the East Alligator causeway shin deep, there were six 3+ metre crocs hanging around, I yelled out to them telling them they were playing a dangerous game, they just laughed and had another beer.

We were tethered to a tree on the down stream side waiting for the tide to come over Xing, as when the tide come over the xing the bait fish come in and so do the Barra, this is great fishing for both angler and the crocs.

When those young fellas saw more crocs move in they sat high on the bank, and when the feeding frenzy started they packed up and left, we thought they had learned their lesson, obviously not.

See you soon Steve.

While we were living in kununurra, you got used to casting out and then standing back from the waters egde a couple of metres.When we came back to tassie, my mates used to laugh at me when fishing here....for casting out and then standing back a mile from the water.I even yelled at the kids a couple of times for playing at the waters edge.Hopefully soon I can reverse all this again.

I was talking to an Aboriginal lady fishing in NQ one night and she told me a story about some wally's water skiing on the Daintree Rv. She said "them there white fella's were trolling for crocs", I cracked up with laughter.

Cheers, Trevor.

Doug

I s'pose its a bit like DUI. Some people never learn.

I know that boat ramp well and launched from there on a weekly basis way back in the late 70's. There were fewer crocs about then but even so you had to keep a wary eye out for the sneaky ones.

One day I was down at Cahills a short time after that fella got taken by a saltie and this mob were standing knee deep in the water, fishing. I ventured an opinion that they were flirting with it and they said that they knew what they were doing as they were locals....lol

Cheers

Great photo of the croc with the shark Doug. I was up on the Coburg Peninsula taking a early morning walk. Dingo tracks about 3 to 4 metres from the waters edge. Croc slide and no more dingo tracks!!

Moved further up the beach. LOL

Cheers

I think the bigger risk would be driving to the boat ramp.

We drive towards each other at 100 Klms per hour where a simple error or lack of concentration means certain death yet we all do it every day.

Thanks fellas a great place to take the whining,nagging wife fishin !



Cheers

They look fine to me. Ive done the same thing for 20 years in the gulf and on the cape, fishing on the banks, boatramps, causeways and beaches. Throwing castnets etc. Thousands do each year and I will do it in the future. You are always aware of the risk but in reallity how many people actually get taken? I fished on banks where dogs - wildlife have been taken but no people. Morgans landing is a good example. There is a risk, but the risk must be low or it would happen every day with the amount of people I have seen fishing in places even silly than where these blokes are.

As someone said above - yes most are locals and many have fished in the same spot for years. Would anybody go fishing if you worried about the risk all the time. If a crocidile wants you even sitting back off the bank a ways is still suicide - have you seen one of those things take a wallaby - I have and it was a good 10 meters away from the water. I have also had them run past me pig shooting on the Flinders River up at Normanton, somtimes they are a fair way away from the waters edge in the thick tea tree and if you walk along a bank they come a flying past you. Quite frightning but they never went for us? same as fishing off that causeway in the wet as many locals do. You know they are just up there somewhere - but no one taken?

Anyway I agree it is most likely more dangerous driving a car each day statistics wise. So go enjoy a fish as those blokes were. Cheers Tony

The looks on their faces....
Back in the 80s when I was living on my yacht in Fannie Bay (Darwin) coming a shore in my tender some times you would come across a tourist on the beach and a lot of them would ask if there were sharks out there and was it safe to swim, you would say no sharks and as they were entering the water you would then say "the crocs ate them all out" Never seen anyone leave the water so quick in my life hahahahah.

Cheers Bruce

Where was that shark and croc?
I was pulling in a decent catty right at the junction of the flora/Katherine and Daley river when a shark bit it in 1/2 so they certainly get a fair way up