We’re going to have to get a bigger boat.
John McClain caught a great white at Nakatomi plaza?
Catching a great white shark is racist!
God bless the man for making sure it was healthy and then returning it. Way too many people would have tortured and killed it for the sake of some damn selfies.
Seven guys from Idaho wanted a charter boat and captain of the charter puts them on the beach?
Ping!..................
Sea Story: We were doing ops with experimental equipment in The Tongue of the Ocean (TOTO) and the our Captain had promised shark fishing to our senior First Class Machinist Mate who had fashioned his own shark hook. We were heading north off the coast of Florida when the MM1 reminded the Captain that he hadn’t had his shark fishing. I was the OOD, so the Captain ordered me to get to the top of our moving SUBNOTE box and surface for shark fishing. He told the MM1 that he had until the box was catching up with us to do his fishing.
We all thought we were safe from sharks in open water, but the MM1 caught one withing the first 15 minutes. He announced his intent to bring it on board though the Sail Trunk. Luckily, the sharp trailing edge of the Sail Plane cut his line as he was hoisting the shark out of the water, and we were saved from certain disaster.
Oh yeah. Turn it loose on the beach. Thanks a lot pal.
A great white caught off the beach at Pensacola, FL.
Hey, yall have fun on spring break in FL.
I used to like swimming off that beach... Used to.
Lots of shark fishers where I work. My guys stepped away from kyacks some time ago. They used drones now
There is just so much we can learn from sharks.
They have an electric car with a 500 mile range.
I hung out with some guys shark fishing from the shore on the NC coast one night. They caught a 7 foot black tip and pulled it out of the suds to measure it before releasing it in a manner similar to described in the article.
When they were working on getting the hook out the shark thrashed his tail and whacked one of the guys in the back and knocked him down.
I caught two lemon sharks 10-12 feet long in one day off of Tennessee reef near islamorada. The first hit a Bonita that I was reeling in just as it got to the boat. The second hit a chicken Mahi just after it jumped out of the water.
Both fights took 3 hours each. Between those fights, my dad refusing to help, getting a bunch of mahi, and one of those sharks stripping the gears on a reel, it was one of the most memorable days fishing in my life.
Also, it was on a 15 foot skiff. The sharks dragged my boat around the entire time like it was a big buoy.
Many sharks are now endangered due to the demand for their fins for shark fin soup and for an aphrodisiac. Offshore they are longlined big time by the chinks,japs,and many others. Problem is they have become apex predators nearshore and need to be thinned down. They prey on almost every specie we hook here in the Keys and are a huge nuisance. Problem is the govt. manages them through advisory councils which are mostly worthless. Govt. should stay out of most everything they are in except keeping us safe ,borders,the currency and a few other things. they screw up everything.