Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: clarki on April 06, 2019, 05:50:09 PM
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It's annoying when a loon or a seal steals your catch, but a least they don't have potential to also eat you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VrgQQdPC1Q
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If Daniel did not run I think the croc after eating the fish would have ate him also. ( for desert )
That croc was fast.
What was the Good Lord thinking creating crocs mosquitos poison spiders snakes on & on...
Makes a person ponder.....
In Australia / Africa how many get killed by crocs yearly?
Bet more than being killed by shark attacks & bear attacks put together.
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Creating???
Evidence of evolution can be found everywhere. Educate yourself.
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In Australia / Africa how many get killed by crocs yearly?
14 people killed by crocs in Australia from 2005 - 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/14/fatal-crocodile-attacks-rising-in-northern-territory-data-shows
Here's a fun site that I just found: http://www.crocodile-attack.info/data/map
You can tinker with the parameters to your heart's desire. Check out the huge spike in attacks starting in 2000. I wonder why...? (Expand the "Date of Incident" tab and scroll way down to find modern times)
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Creating???
Evidence of evolution can be found everywhere. Educate yourself.
Well not going to get into a big debate as this forum FWR is not the site to do so.
Prayed ...felt the supernatural Presence of The Lord ( not drugs/ or crazy ) so for me the Big Bang / we're from monkeys etc is not in my play books.
But respect everyone's theories or beliefs.
Do not want to die by shark or bear or lion or cougar or croc attack hippo on & on...
Plane crash maybe if I'm really old ;D
But a croc can be tamed in some rare cases. Some guy in S America swam with a big croc & it was 100% trusted. It acted like his pet doggie.
But that big mouth & teeth ...scary.
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I've fished the Deep North of Australia for barramundi on more than a dozen trips over the last 25 years. Barra are cool fish (think Indo-Pacific snook), but they live in tough neighborhoods. Much of the Top End lacks large prey animals that crocs prefer (e.g. wildebeests crossing that river in Africa), so they subsist mostly on fish and crabs. They are programmed to eat the largest animals they can find, including the odd shark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcAYb-w5oVY
(BTW: if you ever have the chance, visit Kakadu National Park east of Darwin where this video was filmed, as well as the first half of "Crocodile Dundee". A wonderful place to take the family . . . but not necessarily a location to fish from shore.)
Crocs may have primitive brains, but their ancient DNA gave them cunning. An unwary land animal (e.g. a 'roo, wild horse, or a buff) that waters in the dry season at the same place at sunrise or sunup will eventually find a large reptile hanging off their nose. The crocs spot the game animal in the distance, then submerge at the same spot 24 hours later in wait for the animal to visit again. One of my guides alerted me to this trait one year and urged me to not only stand on the rocks a few vertical feet above the ocean's edge, but also to not fish from the same perch twice in a row. The next day, I moved 50 feet away from the hot spot and was casting away when I saw two nostrils and then an evil eye and head slowly emerge in the first light . . . about 10 feet away from where I had been the previous day.
On another trip, I was fishing in a crystal clear river and standing knee deep, chucking my lure as far as I could to reach the dropoff where the barra congregated. I took another step out to where my knees were covered, and the guide told me to get back. In colorful language, he said that a 4 meter croc at full power could cover the 60' or so that we could see into the river in a couple of second. If I was in deeper than below my knees, I wouldn't be able to turn and run through the shallows and up the beach fast enough to escape. The crocs are simply so fast in the water, and for a short distance on land, the big game animals they occasionally see (and always stalk) often can't get away.
In summary, Mother Nature programmed crocodiles to eat anything and everything, with bigger being better. I treat these animals with lots of respect when fishing in waters they inhabit.
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My many visits to BC and Alaska suggest that "people" don't register on a bear's natural menu. That's fortunate. As a diver, it's always cool to see a shark and they, too, typically are curious or ignore people. But there's NFW I'd go diving if there were salties around.
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Cool stories Snagly, thanks :D
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Cool stories Snagly, thanks :D
+1
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAVDRcOQnIo