Great white shark takes on fishing boat near Pottsville

[fishingvic]

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[smile0784]

awesome shark till it started eating the boat

[Kev209]

How would it if you had to put in an Insurance claim? Well I was out fishing and this big shark came along and bit my boat

[frozenpod]

They love biting props.

[Ozzy]

5m pfffft try no more than 4 at the most , it's also not a half cab it's a 4.5 Polycraft Drifter Frontrunner. Beautiful creature and if you don't panic they are pretty tame around the boat. One trick always leave engine in gear at anchor stops the prop spinning , which some believe actually attracts the sharks in to bite. I'm a South Aussie lad and seen big great whites up close and this one isn't one , but as they say never let the truth get in the way of a good story

Ozzy

[smile0784]

if you put the boat in gear, wouldnt the prob spin more?

[cobby]

Not with the motor off smiles. The gears meshed stops the prop spinning from the currents or wave action. Can be in forward or reverse it doesn't matter. Just remember to take the motor out of gear when you go to start it

[Ozzy]

Good point cobby , seen a few guys pulling their hair out thinking the batteries shat itself only to then remember it's in gear

Ozzy

[smile0784]

Not with the motor off smiles. The gears meshed stops the prop spinning from the currents or wave action. Can be in forward or reverse it doesn't matter. Just remember to take the motor out of gear when you go to start it

i thought they ment with the motor on lol my bad sorry

[hornet]

:rofl: minced flake :rofl: