An angler on Australia’s Gold Coast has landed a massive barramundi after a ferocious battle that also involved a hungry bull shark.
Ryan Selvey, 21, was fishing at night from the banks of the Nerang River this week when the 4-foot, 2-inch barramundi struck.
After the catch, while holding the fish on his lap, Selvey explained via TikTok that the “shark came up chasing him just as we were about to land him, nipped him a little bit, but… what a … horse of a barra!” (Warning: the TikTok footage contains profanity.)
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Selvey is quoted by 9News as saying the barramundi was larger than the shark “and the shark couldn’t get a good bite on it.”
Barramundi, which reside in freshwater but spawn in estuary mouths and coastal mud flats, are similar in appearance to snook and closely related to Nile perch. They’re prized by anglers for their fighting ability and as table fare.
Selvey didn’t mention a weight but his fish was exceptionally large.
Then International Game Fish Assn. lists as the world record a 98-pound, 6-ounce barramundi caught at Lake Monduran, Queensland, in 2010.
