Daredevil fishermen go SWIMMING with massive sharks after catching 10 of the monsters off Australian beach
Brave lads drag huge fish to shore with their bare hands after capturing them with a baited line
TWO fishermen bagged a bumper haul when they caught ten huge sharks off the coast of Australia.
Josh Butterworth and Jethro Bonnitcha, from Esperance, reeled in the snappers during a four-day fishing adventure.
But the pair say that they no longer want to swim in the shark-infested waters.
Butterworth told the Daily Mail Australia: “We landed ten and lost a fair few but we saw a lot more swimming in the water that we didn’t catch.
“There is no shortage of sharks up there.”
The anglers set baited lines 100 metres from the sea shore to attract the vicious sharks.
The men then used the line to pull the fish to land.
Some whoppers measured over five metres long.
Butterworth said: “We both had a shark, Jethro got his up on to the shore and a third was going at the bait.”
“When they take the bait, or take a bit and spat it out you have to paddle back out and reset it. I don’t like that bit because you know there are some just there in the water.”
The sharks were attracted by the stingrays, fish bones and heads, which were attacked to the bait line.
Once the pair saw that their ruse had worked, they had to pull the huge sharks back to the shore by hand.
Butterworth said: “Once they come along you have to go like b**gery to pull them in. You just have commit your body to it then when you get them onto the beach someone has to run in the water to grab him by the tail.”
“When you have them in the water holding them they’re like big puppy dogs. As soon as you take your hands off them they bolt – they are pretty lazy things.”
“Tiger sharks aren’t the worst. They come up and say hello but aren't that dangerous. You just don't want to see a pointer like down south.”
But the men got into some hairy situations on their fishing trip.
Butterworth said: “Jethro had a 12 footer and a nine footer come up to him on the kayak and eyeball him when he was paddling out the bait.”
“He threw it in the water and paddled back pretty quickly but they didn’t seem too interested in the bait and just kept having a look at him.”
After taking some incredible pictures of them wrestling with the sharks, the pair sent them back into the sea.
Butterworth said: “We don’t need to kill them. We do a lot of game fishing and when it's not marlin season we just try to find something that pulls as hard as they do.”
“There are no shortage of pointers off the south coast. Down there I won't paddle out in a kayak at night.”
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