Photo: GovDeals For many, fishing is just something you do at your grandfather’s pond or while camping, but fishing at a professional level is something completely different. Your friends may give you a hard time for exaggerating the size of the fish you caught, but back in 2022, two Ohio men found out the hard … Read more
A Kangaroo Island fisherman shocked witnesses as he wrangled a bronze whaler shark mistakenly hooked on a line before dragging it back to the water and going for a brief swim with it in the ocean. Video captured earlier this year shows South Australian man Tristan Turner pulling the tail of the 3m shark, then … Read more
A pair of magnet fishing enthusiasts have reeled in the catch of a lifetime from a New York City lake — a muddy safe with an estimated $US80,000 ($A119,000) in it. “I looked, and it was just pure hundred dollar bills,” said 40-year-old James Kane of the haul he made while ‘magnet fishing’ with his … Read more
A teenager has become an instant millionaire after reeling in a barramundi that was part of the Northern Territory’s Million Dollar Fish competition. Keegan Payne, a “mad-keen” fisherman, caught the prize 67cm barra on the Katherine River with friends and family on Sunday. The 19-year-old called the competition hotline at 1am, ecstatic that his whole … Read more
Two fishermen had a rare opportunity to see a blanket octopus, last seen in South Australia’s southeast coast almost 30-years ago. Jakyb Sharman and his friend were fishing in the St Vincent Gulf, between Ardrossan and Price, when something that appeared to be a plastic bag in the water caught their eye. The men, who … Read more
Two travellers have been fined $54,000 in a Federal Court ruling for attempting to smuggle 240 fish through Melbourne International Airport. One man was initially fined $420 for attempting to smuggle 120 live ornamental fish into the country in December 2019. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry launched an investigation when the same man … Read more
Two people suspected to have drowned while net fishing south of Perth have been identified by friends who joined a frantic search for the pair as Jon and Leslie Ballo. The bodies of the married couple, who moved from the Philippines nine years ago with their now-orphaned 13-year-old daughter, were pulled from the Peel-Harvey Estuary, … Read more
LEGO Fortnite continues to receive new gameplay features, as Epic Games releases another big new update. LEGO Fortnite update 28.30 has a February 22 release date on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch and Android. The patch will launch alongside a period of server downtime, which runs from 9am until around … Read more
