YESTERDAY’S story about the capture of a giant herring on the NSW mid north coast by Fisho photographer Shane Chalker attracted quite a bit of interest.
Reader Rohan Bruce emailed to tell us about a giant herring encounter he had recently while fishing with his girlfriend Tami Oneill at Queensland’s Fraser Island.
Rohan writes, “We hooked and lost six and landed one and a half with mine taking about 200m of 15lb in about 5 seconds before it caught the attention of a shark! Amazing fish to fight!”
Unfortunately this giant herring wasn’t fast enough to avoid the sharks…