I used to fish Sadgroves creek

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...rganic&sf191962843=1

That’s a lot of croc!

Not as big as the one we got from the river we swam in in Africa!

Mind you, we used a stick that throws bullets to catch him!

What is the authenticated largest saltie in Aussie?

A wildlife sanctuary in Odissa India has one that is over 24 ft.

Rom Whitaker the American (born & brought up in India) has documented a skull that was over 50 years old and measured 7 feet, making the croc more than 30 feet long.

He recently did a TV program where he was in the Australian outback and saw a huge croc from a chopper. It spooked and went into the river. They landed and measured the imprint on the mud & it was over 22 feet IIRC! They did some detailed photo analysis with super imposing before & after shots to try and validate their estimate.

I get the feeling that the Aussie crocs are coming back big time after the serious depletion of the 70s and it is only a matter of time before the giants of legend are found in reality again.

There was a report of a 5 and a half meter salty in one of the big croc hot spots a few years ago, but that was not a confirmed measurement.

I thought from the title that you'd been fishing Bakes.

No mate. Boats off line. Have to replace the axle on the trailer.

Hey Saeed whats the biggest croc you've taken in Africa?

Got to help trap a similar sized croc on a station in the NT about 11 years ago. It had been taking cattle.

Once in Africa, hunting crocs, was on a skiff on a lake on the Zambezi River, we were perplexed why a half-grown hippo was by itself, and did not attempt to swim away from the small island it was on when we motored by. After a quarter mile, we turned around and came back the same way, but closer to the island. The hippo was still by herself and not moving. We motered around a small protuberance of island and a monster croc, waiting for the young hippo, had lain up on the edge of the island, about 30 feet from our moving skiff. It took that croc about 2 seconds to decide that it had to move, and the best way was a quick dive into the relatively deep water at the edge of its perch. I wish I had been quicker on the trigger to stand up and shoot, but that 16-17 footer escaped--and so did the young hippo, who dived into the water at the same time, and managed to elude the croc.
Later that day, I got a 13 footer using the same technique.

Africa




Australia:

Mighty big lizard!!
Just think of all the big steaks that sucker would
provide.

George

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Originally posted by Bakes:
No mate. Boats off line. Have to replace the axle on the trailer.

Hey Saeed whats the biggest croc you've taken in Africa?

Not sure Tony, but I think over 15 feet.

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Not sure Tony, but I think over 15 feet.

Over 4.5 meters ...that's a fair lump. That's not that big bugger under your pool table is it?