A bull shark was seen in Victoria’s Mitchell River near Linds Bridge at Bairnsdale.
The shark was seen in the freshwater reach.
The Mitchell River is about 280km east of Melbourne.
Anglers have apparently reported more bull shark sightings in East Gippsland in recent years, with sightings between 90 Mile Beach and Marlo Beach.
The bull shark is one of the most dangerous sharks, being aggressive and turning up in freshwater and turbid tidal rivers, residential canals and shallow beaches.
This is the first post to get the new WFS reports page up and running (posted Dec 9, 2024).
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Back in the late 1970s I would fish Adelaide’s Brighton jetty, and other South Australian jetties, for squid, tommies, gar, sharks and rays, which I mostly released.
Every now and then snapper like this would show up. One night six fish like this were caught. Interestingly, it was so rough that night, one of the deck boards broke later in the night, after we left.
I caught this snapper on a rough night, but we also caught one on a flat calm night.
The big snapper would come on the bite during the late incoming tide, as did everything else – gummy sharks, smooth rays, eagle rays, Port Jackson sharks, fiddle rays and more.
From vague memory the big snapper were usually around in October. We never caught small ones.
I also saw a mulloway caught off one of the metro jetties.
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