A shark fishing expert landed a monster on a Florida beach Wednesday when he singlehandedly reeled in a 1,200-pound, 12-foot great white shark.
Blaine Kenny, who owns Coastal Worldwide, a shark fishing outfitter and fishing tour group in Pensacola, and his business partner, Dylan Wier, set themselves up on Tuesday night at on Navarre Beach, about 25 miles east of Pensacola, aiming to catch the “biggest sharks possible,” they said on their YouTube channel.
The duo set out on their mission by “using the most important bait possible” — a head of a 150-pound swordfish head and a head of an 80-pound yellowfin tuna head, The Miami Herald reported.
At 8 a.m. the next morning, there was a tug on Kenny’s line, and he began to reel within the fish.
“He just jumped!”‘ Kenny says within the video.
The whole process took an hour, since Kenny would draw within the fish and it might pull back out into the water. “He’s not letting me take anything,” he explains within the clip, which is near 25 minutes long.
“We may need to find yourself chasing him sooner or later.”
Weir, who served as Kenny’s spotter, made predictions on what the ocean creature could possibly be.
“It’s an enormous, big wintertime shark,” he says.
“There’s only a number of things it could actually be, a mako, a large tiger, a white shark or the most important dusky we’ve ever seen in our lives,” Weir chatters. “We’re just going to play it out, not jump to assumptions, and really does it matter what’s on the opposite end of that line straight away? Now we have one task at hand and the duty is Blaine has to remain locked in. I even have to remain locked in.”
With the assistance of a drone, Wier searched overhead to find out what was on Kenny’s line.
“Have a look at that, that’s a white shark!” Wier says.
“Oh my gosh, bro,” Kenny replies, and continues to attempt to bring the shark to shore.
“You probably did, dude,” Weir continues. “Yeah, that’s a monster, dude, that’s not only any white shark.”
At one point toward the tip of the ordeal, Kenny thought the shark had slipped off the road. “That was terrifying,” he said. “I used to be gonna be heartbroken.”
He eventually pulled the large animal onto the shore, but since it was an awesome white, Weir said it needed to get it out and in of the water as fast as possible.
Once Kenny removed the hook from the shark, the animal was released back into the water.
“I’ve said it so persistently before,” he gushed. “But truly, truly words cannot describe the sensation of this fish right here.”
A shark fishing expert landed a monster on a Florida beach Wednesday when he singlehandedly reeled in a 1,200-pound, 12-foot great white shark.
Blaine Kenny, who owns Coastal Worldwide, a shark fishing outfitter and fishing tour group in Pensacola, and his business partner, Dylan Wier, set themselves up on Tuesday night at on Navarre Beach, about 25 miles east of Pensacola, aiming to catch the “biggest sharks possible,” they said on their YouTube channel.
The duo set out on their mission by “using the most important bait possible” — a head of a 150-pound swordfish head and a head of an 80-pound yellowfin tuna head, The Miami Herald reported.
At 8 a.m. the next morning, there was a tug on Kenny’s line, and he began to reel within the fish.
“He just jumped!”‘ Kenny says within the video.
The whole process took an hour, since Kenny would draw within the fish and it might pull back out into the water. “He’s not letting me take anything,” he explains within the clip, which is near 25 minutes long.
“We may need to find yourself chasing him sooner or later.”
Weir, who served as Kenny’s spotter, made predictions on what the ocean creature could possibly be.
“It’s an enormous, big wintertime shark,” he says.
“There’s only a number of things it could actually be, a mako, a large tiger, a white shark or the most important dusky we’ve ever seen in our lives,” Weir chatters. “We’re just going to play it out, not jump to assumptions, and really does it matter what’s on the opposite end of that line straight away? Now we have one task at hand and the duty is Blaine has to remain locked in. I even have to remain locked in.”
With the assistance of a drone, Wier searched overhead to find out what was on Kenny’s line.
“Have a look at that, that’s a white shark!” Wier says.
“Oh my gosh, bro,” Kenny replies, and continues to attempt to bring the shark to shore.
“You probably did, dude,” Weir continues. “Yeah, that’s a monster, dude, that’s not only any white shark.”
At one point toward the tip of the ordeal, Kenny thought the shark had slipped off the road. “That was terrifying,” he said. “I used to be gonna be heartbroken.”
He eventually pulled the large animal onto the shore, but since it was an awesome white, Weir said it needed to get it out and in of the water as fast as possible.
Once Kenny removed the hook from the shark, the animal was released back into the water.
“I’ve said it so persistently before,” he gushed. “But truly, truly words cannot describe the sensation of this fish right here.”
