That's a big catch!
North Carolina fishermen caught a huge great white shark that had been drifting on land in an unedited community on Hatteras Island about 30 miles east of the mainland.
“I put the hook on the fish and it just felt different,” Fisherman Luke Beard said. Fox 19.
In the video of the heart-stopping moment from March 15th, Beard, his best friend Jason Rosenfeld, and five other five men wrestling sharks in the shallow waters as they tried to set it up safely and freely.
The angler insisted on “fighting” with the creatures It lasted 35 minutes.
The beard was estimated to be 12-13 feet long as the shark and weighed between 1,400-1,800 pounds.
Great White Sharks can weigh up to 4,500 pounds and can be measured between 4 feet (at birth) and 21 feet. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Beard and Rosenfeld, like the massive Stingrays, have caught big games before, but this is the first time they've grabbed a shark in the state's popular outer banks area.
“We were trying to get something big,” Rosenfeld said. “You know that's what it is. That's what we do. That's our passion.”
It appears that it did not attack any of them as the fishermen tried to free the sharks.
“We released this fish as quickly as possible. She swims perfectly and super green,” Beard wrote on Facebook.
Unfortunately, Beard didn't run away without scratching.
The fisherman shared an image of a big red rash on his thigh Facebook followers on Tuesday.
“Three and a half days late, a white shark rash. It sucks, but it's totally worth it!” wrote Beard.
“I'm still on Cloud Nine,” Rosenfeld said. “I'm probably going to be for the rest of my life. It gives me a kind of chill, even thinking about it. It was incredible.”
According to NOAA, People with appropriate permissions “deliberately fish white sharks with rod and reel gear as long as they release the sharks immediately without further harming them.”
“That shark would not have been possible without standing behind one of my best friends, Jason Rosenfeld!” Beard wrote on social media. “This was a catch for both of us. He wanted me to fight this fish because I'd never caught it before. We're learning from each other. [the] The past four years and now, we are shaping the future [of] Land fishing! ”
