Jaws come to life??

[DarkArtist81]

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DESTIN, Fla. - Six friends went to a fishing tournament looking to catch some grouper. They caught an 844-pound shark instead.
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The fight by Adlee Bruner and friends to pull the 11-foot mako shark onto the boat from the Gulf of Mexico took more than an hour on Saturday. But when they made it back to land, it was a record for the decades-old Destin Fishing Rodeo.

"It was tense," Bruner, 47, said about the fight to land the shark, which has a mouthful of huge, fearsome teeth. "I've fished for 40 years. I've never see one that big."

Bruner and his fishing buddies were on a 52-foot charter boat with Capt. Robert Hill, about 70 miles southwest of this beach city in the Florida Panhandle.

The fishermen first noticed the big mako because it kept eating grouper and scamp they had hooked.

"It was like 'Jaws,'" Hill said.

Hill hooked a two-foot amberine on as bait and tossed it out. The shark eventually hit it.

After the long fight, the shark was gaffed and eventually gave up after its tail was roped. But even then, the men could not get the big shark in the boat. They tied it to the stern with three ropes and made the four-hour trip back to land.

The shark was hoisted at the rodeo before a big crowd. It tipped the scale at 844.4 pounds.

After it was gutted, the mako still weighed 638 pounds, breaking the tournament's previous shark division record by 338 pounds.

 

[The Godfather]

do you ever sleep

 

[Moonloop]

Nice! You got a link to that article?

 

[Bardoon]

Damn that's a big Mako!

 

[DarkArtist81]

Nice! You got a link to that article?

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071015/ap_on_fe_st/odd_monster_shark;_ylt=AqiBWbtkCsVMM64nUblI8wfq188F

And Bob.... not really.

I was getting up for work and checking my messages....

 

[Voorhees27]

Man thats a huge ass fish! Almost a thousand pounds, man, kinda sad that the only reason they killed the thing was for the attention/publicity.

****ed up world I guess.

Still a big ass mother ****er nonetheless!

 

[figuremasterles]

Big for a Mako. Hate that they killed it.

 

[Darren Carnall]

I agree.... why kill something, especially something as big and beautiful as that... just to get some publicity

sad, sad world

 

[MaulFan]

I still remember about 5-7 years ago, a dead 18 foot Great White washed up on a shore near Cape Cod, and like 3-5 years ago there was a Great White up here that got lost in some small pond and it's bearing were all of so it didn't know how to get out and they had to close it off, I didn't have access to a car or I'd have gone down to try and see it, I love Great Whites. Sharks are so cool, and like any predator, if you don't get in their way, respect how they work, and leave them alone, they're not that dangerous. The ratio of swimmers to attacks is quite minimal.

 

[KitFisto]

I would have let it go.

 

[KrisSolo]

This story saddened me, but you guys' response makes me feel a little less sad. Why the hell do people always feel the need to kill such beautiful creatures for nothing more than 'sport'? Christ, get a ****ing life...

 

[Boba Fett]

Damn shame. At least make shark fillets and soup for the entire town.

 

[figuremasterles]

I still remember about 5-7 years ago, a dead 18 foot Great White washed up on a shore near Cape Cod, and like 3-5 years ago there was a Great White up here that got lost in some small pond and it's bearing were all of so it didn't know how to get out and they had to close it off, I didn't have access to a car or I'd have gone down to try and see it, I love Great Whites. Sharks are so cool, and like any predator, if you don't get in their way, respect how they work, and leave them alone, they're not that dangerous. The ratio of swimmers to attacks is quite minimal.

It's one of my goals in life to cage dive with a white shark. Not sure if I ever will, but I hope to see one ALIVE in my lifetime.

Keep hope alive!
HUG A SHARK!

 

[Reinhardt]

It's one of my goals in life to cage dive with a white shark. Not sure if I ever will, but I hope to see one ALIVE in my lifetime.

Keep hope alive!
HUG A SHARK!

an uncle of mine did that. sounds like an unbelievable experience!

 

[Kuzeh]

What a bunch of losers...it's really pathetic how our society celebrates hatred towards animals...

 

[maatuu52]

why do you humans always kill things of beauty andnature. because that's it were human and don't know anybetter

 

[Darth Caedus]

Somethign to think about....Hmmm....850 pound shark we are catching, and we want to keep it on the boat. OR, we could just let it go and drive the boat away. Now which is the safer bet?

 

[Voorhees27]

What a bunch of losers...it's really pathetic how our society celebrates hatred towards animals...

And your country's Government to humans.

 

[MaulFan]

It's one of my goals in life to cage dive with a white shark. Not sure if I ever will, but I hope to see one ALIVE in my lifetime.

Keep hope alive!
HUG A SHARK!

Wow, freaky Les, that's my big "fun" goal in my life, to do that, go down to Australia and check it out, I'd be scared ****less no doubt, but I'd have the time of my life too, would definitely have to get set with an underwater camera though, photo boy must have money shots I'd also like to check out the reef in Australia where they have the challenging currents, in this one spot, the whites jump up out of the water like whales and come down on fish and birds at the surface for food, it's their best chance, just like in JAWS. Can you imagine boating along and all of a sudden a 10-15 foot white comes up out of the water, I'd be RUNNING lol.

 

[Anzik]

Not a shark story but it was really cool to me. I think I was about 20 or so and I had just started working overnights. My dad was going down to the shore for the week and it was my night off. I was supposed to call him and find out what room he was staying in but I had overslept and woke up about 11pm. This was the late 80s and before cell phones and the front desk was closed, so there was no way I could tell what room he was in. So there I was, looking at being up all night with nothing to do, when I got an idea. The place where we stayed had your room number on your parking spot, so I would look for his car, read the room number and knock. He might be a little irritated but, it beat sitting up alone. I drive all the way down there and he was parked on the street. So there I was at 1am with nothing to do.
I killed a few hours walking down the beach as the cool September breeze chilled me, but it was one of those serene, introspective experiences. Then I snuck into the waterpark and climbed around for a bit.
It was getting close to sunrise and since there are few sights as beautiful as the sunrise over the ocean, I planned on walking out on the big stone jetty and watching nature in all of her perfect glory. The water around me was black but I could hear the rhythmic crashing of the waves as the scent of the saltwater filled my nostrils. The light began to gradually rise, slowly revealing the beach, the rocks and the sea... and something else. I began to see shadows in the water, triangular shadows. I sat there wishing I could cause the sun to rise faster so I could be sure of what I was seeing. Gradually the sun revealed dozens of fins in the inlet. The dolphins chased the fish into the shallows and enjoyed the buffet. As I stood there transfixed at the fins darting in and out of the water, about ten feet away from me one surfaced and our eyes met. Just for a moment, but enough to wonder if it was as curious about me as I was of it. It didn't last long, merely a few seconds, but those seconds stretched so long, it was like magic.
I was so captivated I had forgotten all about watching the sunrise, instead I watched the triangular shadows vanish one, by one as the sky grew brighter.
In the 20 years since I have never had that experience again, but its still so sharp in my mind it feels like yesterday.