“That’s a monster, dude, that’s not just any White shark.”
It’s sure as hell been one-way traffic between Great Whites and humans these past couple of decades, ever since the gloves came on and the fish became a protected species in most of its habitats.
The protection, as y’know, has led to a stratospheric rise in Great White attacks, mostly surfers.
Last Wednesday morning at Navarre Beach, just east of Pensacola there, and using a 150-pound swordfish head and a head of an 80-pound yellowfin tuna head, Blaine Kenny and his biz partner Dylan Weir went hunting “the biggest sharks possible.”
Kenny on the rod, Weir the spotter.
“There’s only a few things it can be, a Mako, a giant Tiger, a White shark or the biggest Dusky we’ve ever seen in our lives,” Weir says when Kenny hooks a shark. “We’re just going to play it out, not jump to assumptions, and really does it matter what’s on the other end of that line right now? We have one task at hand and the task is Blaine has to stay locked in. I have to stay locked in.”
Using a drone, Weir identifies the shark as a Great White.
“That’s a monster, dude, that’s not just any White shark.”
Kenny gets the Great White to shore and, here, we see the most dramatic moment of the event when the hook is deftly removed from the Great White’s mouth and the creature is set free.
“I’ve said it so many times before,” he says. “But truly, truly words cannot describe the feeling of this fish right here.”
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Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Totally Floridian.
too bad kidz/pep’s can’t cast a line for pit~bullz,
be fun to see ’em pull a hook outta their mouth,
film it too, hahaha…
They and by “they” you know Jwho! They protect the sharks so the sharks destroy our fisheries. This is about starving us and destroy and or controlling our food source! Environmentalism is Anti Human!
Prediction: Thanks to the enviro-weenies who run fisheries, these fishermen will likely get in some legal trouble for catching this shark and posting the video. (Don’t post videos of you hunting or fishing) In the minds of the fed regulators, they should have cut the line as soon as they positively identified it as a white shark with the drone. From that moment on they were in violation even though they successfully released it. Lawyers cost lots of HamSammishes.
I should’ve watched that in an incognito tab. Now youtube’s gonna push all sorts of fishing recommendations on me
I hear you, boss. Rode a mid-length once.
Greenough would have used a hand line..
The article is very generous in giving head.
“Sharks are like dogs, they only bite when you touch their private parts.” Ula
Nothing like baiting up at local beach bringing in a shark with a free feed!!
It was only too buggered from being caught, to not bite their fucking legs off in the shallows.
That would been entertainment.
Respect to release but does this shark now know the area has easy meals ??
1200 pounds. To paraphrase Occy “I’ve seen bigger sharks in a toilet”
That was very Florida
When he wrapped the leader around his arm, brought back memories of doing the same thing a day or so boat ride west of Kauai. Hooked a 8 foot shark with metal leader pulled the same stunt. When I raised its head above the water line it thrashed back pulling the wrapped leader strangling my forearm. In the moment was able to unwind my arm in that split second. If I hadn’t would have pulled the muscle of my arm like a cooked drumstick..
jesus. quite a dodge.
off Hilo long-lining in the 70s did the same thing. jap capt on The Pulpo got mad cause no progress I was making. gave the lead to Tito who wrapped it around his waistline. Gone, Tito, gone. (satire only!)
They can use Felipe’s balls* for bait and catch a tadpole.
Why can’t they be just eating these wankers
I think a lot of mercury!
“words cannot describe the feeling of this fish”
Foam is water plus air.
Heavy man
Occy…
I heard them say this the other day while foaming my milk for my latte. Actually foam is almond milk plus steam.