One of the Williams sisters was fined $12,000 for threatening to insert a tennis ball into a lines woman.

My guess is that Serena would give more than that away in tips during the US Open!

I was out fishing with Mark Kilkeary on the weekend and we had a close encounter with one of Lake Macquarie's resident noah's cue the cello music.

The skipper reckons he saw a fin about 100 metres ahead of us, so we were both peering ahead when a noise to starboard shifted our focus fairly rapidly.

There, not more than a metre from the boat and almost directly amidships, was this hammerhead shark, six to seven feet (1.8 to 2.1 metres) in length.

It was obviously cruising along, enjoying a pleasant Sunday morning and we just happened to be in its way. The thing took a quick look at us, threw an excellent 180 and disappeared into the windswept depths.

The lake is that full of baitfish at present, it must be a cafeteria for pelagic species.

The small school, believed to number four, of hammerhead sharks that are making Lake Macquarie home at the moment are an endangered species, as fishermen are going to try to catch them.

This is probably a good thing, if a quick after-work opinion poll at the local is any indication.

Imagine the possibilities if one of these eating machines actually reached 13 feet in length and was still living in the lake.

Best we cancel that regatta.

The Harry Dustin Memorial was run and won on the weekend, and the away team took home the trophy for the sixth year in a row.

Well done to the Bay Hotel mob, and it's obvious that the lake is in good condition fish-wise.

Flathead and bream were the main species caught.

Soft-plastic and hard-body lures and a variety of bait produced fish, and there were some decent-sized ones among them.

Rory Conley led the way for the Bay with his biggest fish, a flathead, weighing 2.91 kilos.

Ross White was the best of the Dora Creek lot and weighed-in the biggest flathead, which tipped the scales at 3.92 kilos.

It was also pleasing to see so many kids, both boys and girls, had been out catching fish and generally enjoying the great outdoors.

That's it. To put it simply: a dolphin swims in arches through the water, while a shark swims in esses.