Posted on 03/20/2015 6:56:47 AM PDT by C19fan
A fisherman got the fright of his life when the catch he was reeling in was attacked and stolen by a great white shark. Filmed in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand a man can be seen fishing from the side of a boat – his rod bent under the pressure. Struggling to reel in the seemingly huge fish, the man states ‘he’s not happy about coming over here anyway.’
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He can have it!......................
Lucky for the shark, the fisherman was NOT Chuck Norris...
That was just a pup. Maybe 7 or 8 feet max. But still pretty cool! (and I’m sure quite startling for the fisherman).
I’m surprised they are laughing about it. I think I would have been heading back to dock to change my pants after that one.
I was reeling in a salmon at the aft end of a boat in Juneau in 1987. The fish was about three feet from my grasp when an Orca WOOSHED up and took it!
I’m surprised to this day I did not soil myself.
I don’t fish much anymore.
Top-notch journalism at the Daily Mail
On my 5th birthday, I received a real fishing pole, just as I had requested. No Snoopy rod, for me, please. I was fishing with my dad on the peirs at Roosevelt Roads. I hooked on something, don’t know what, but it wasn’t anything special. It was still a couple of feet down when a barracuda decided it was dinner time. I actually had both fish hooked for a couple of seconds before the toothy predator cut the line. While it’s not an orca or great white, a 4ft barracuda to a 5 year old may as well be.
A few years back I was bottom fishing from a head boat out of Islamorada. I had hooked a small bottom fish and had reeled it almost to the surface, just enough to see a flash of silver, when a brown and white flash engulfed it and line began to scream off the reel. I told the mate “A damned shark”. Wrong. Ten minutes later I brought a 24 pound Cobia to gaff. Delicious!
Great story!
My name IS Chuck Norris. The movie guy doesn’t own the name.
When I lived in MD, I always wanted to catch a cobia. I have heard they’re doid eating. During dry years, they’d come up near the area of the Naval Academy when the Chesapeake salinity was higher. Hooked plenty of bluefish, which are aggressive and fun to catch, but the meat is a bit bloody and not really to my liking.
doid = good
And now I die...
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