Posted on 03/16/2023 11:58:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK.............
March 15 (UPI) -- A pair of Alabama fishing guides and their clients unexpectedly reeled in a great white shark in what is believed to be the first time a member of the species has been caught from a beach in the state.
Dylan Wier and Blaine Kenny, the Pensacola-based owners of fishing guide service Coastal World Wide, said they were on Orange Beach in the early morning hours of March 7 when something started to pull on one of their heavy-duty lines.
The men said they initially thought they might have hooked a large tiger shark, but at the end of a 32-minute struggle they were shocked to discover they had reeled in an 11-foot great white shark.
Marcus Drymon, a Mississippi State University assistant extension professor who serves as a shark expert for the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resource, said the shark is believed to be the first great white ever caught from an Alabama beach.
Drymon said great white sharks are known to pass through Gulf of Mexico waters off the state's coast, but they rarely come close enough to land for beach-based anglers to encounter.
Wier and Kenney said the shark was released after the guides and their clients snapped some quick photos.
His last post was February 3................hmmmmmmmmmm.........
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Not really up to speed on that but will check it out. Saw them live on that tour and it was a good show.
Gonna need a bigger beach
I’ve bean waiting, going to nab a naughty ageless beach bunny
Massive pyrotechnic fire during a show, 100 people lost their lives.
Was it missing teach and a HS diploma?
The real news to me is that Alabama has a beach.
Yes, it’s wedged in between Mississippi and Florida....................
Cool. Will have to check it out one day.
Oh wow, somehow I missed that. I had left that lifestyle behind by then I guess.
The real LA
Alabama has @60 miles of Coastline (I grew up there.) To stop the liberal locusts from moving down and destroying a good thing, please don’t tell anyone. :)
Orange Beach and Gulf Shores are some of the most beautiful beaches you will see anywhere.
My wife and I were on that beach when a TV reporter was doing a remote taping. We asked what the news was and it was Sharks in the water. This was in 2002. We had already left the water but this was not a good experience. It seemed that fish had moveed into shore possibly to avoid the Sharks whic h followed them in.
I used to wade out to cast until I figured out the fish are between the first and second sand bars.
Great White Sharks …
are RACIST!!
Hey Captain Tom, where are you? Everything ok?
We got a Great White down here in Alabama!
They tend to hunt near the shore and are bad tempered beasts.
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