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Young fisherman recalls the incredible moment he battled a bull shark before catching a HUGE 1.29m long barramundi
- Ryan Selvey, 21, caught a huge barramundi on the Gold Coast
- The huge fish was 129 centimeters long, he said.
- A bull shark was trying to eat the barramundi at the time.
A man has revealed how he caught a huge barramundi over a meter long.
Ryan Selvey, 21, was fishing along the Nerang River near Bond University on the Gold Coast when he caught the fish.
After rolling it up and measuring it, Selvey was surprised to find that it was 129 centimeters long.
He also revealed how he briefly battled a bull shark before catching the barramundi.
Initially, Selvey thought there were two huge ‘bars’, before realizing that the shark was unsuccessfully trying to eat it.
Ryan Selvey, 21, was fishing along the Nerang River near Bond University on the Gold Coast when he caught the barramundi.
“That’s when I realized there was a three-foot shark trying to bite him,” Selvey told 4BC’s Neil Breen.
“The bar was a little bigger than the shark and the shark couldn’t get a good bite out of it.
“The shark actually just walked away from the bar.”
The fisherman took a photo of the giant fish before releasing it again.
According to Fisheries Queensland, the largest barramundi ever caught was 135cm long.
Denis Harrold was fishing from a kayak on Lake Monduran near Bundaberg in December 2010 when he caught the 44.64kg fish.
Initially, Mr Selvey thought there were two huge ‘bars’, before realizing that the shark was unsuccessfully trying to eat it.
However, in 2019, a teenager claimed to have landed an even bigger one after the monster fish swept his jet ski sideways into a Queensland dam.
Jesse Bradford and his friend Dylan Cosgrove, both 19, pulled the beast, which was already dead, from the Kinchant Dam.
The fish was so big that the teens had to “tie it up like an animal” to get it out of the water.
The fish weighed around 55kg and was 140cm long, it was also tagged and when the children caught it they found that it had last measured 116cm in 2014.