Bull Shark Stories From The Georges River And Chipping Norton Lakes

[eagle ray]

I remember reading Victor Coppleson's book Shark Attack when I was a kid. It documents quite a few shark atacks in the harbour and surrounds. Good read if you can find it.

I have seen a few down round Balmain way. Snails bay and Mort Bay especially. A neighbour of ours was bumped twice by a 6 footer while yacking in Snails last summer. There used to be shark signs at Birchgrove Oval but someone either flogged them or the council took them down for some reason only they know about. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoom_eric/526148044/

Here is a video of shark scientists catching bull sharks at Balmain http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/bull-shark-caught-in-sydney-harbour/x0hvf5r

Edited July 29, 2010 by eagle ray

[recon]

I have noticed in the last few years around Christmas large schools of aussie salmon have been in chippo lakes some up to 3kg a trip for some bream in 2018 we seen no less than 5 large bull sharks chasing salmon in the lake late in the arvo