THIS ONE DIDN’T GET AWAY
(Rec. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 23. Sharks have been plentiful in the waters around Sydney this summer. A resident of a boathouse on the Middle Harbour waterfront has set a precedent in novel methods of catching them. He caught nine-foot shark whije lying asleep in his bed—and he has a shark and rope-burn around his waist as proofs. Before going to bed last night the fisherman tossed a baited hook from his bedroom window into the water securing the line by tying it around his waist.. Then he went to bed. He was not long asleep when a mighty jerk on the line almost pulled him through the window. The culprit was a black whaler shark which is now displayed as a testimony of the veracity of Sydney’s best fish sfrry.
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Southland Times, Issue 24986, 24 February 1943, Page 5
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