Florida Kayaker Towed for Hours by 11 Foot Hammerhead Shark (Video)
 

damn. extreme anglers indeed.


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Florida Atlantic University student Adam Fisk, 22, was fishing in his kayak Sunday near Boynton Beach, Fla., when he hooked a pretty unusual catch: an 11-foot hammerhead shark, which took Fisk on a two-hour, 12-mile ride, captured on Fisk's helmet camera.

"Hooked a hammerhead in 50 ft. of water and got drug out to 250 ft.," Fisk wrote on Facebook, according to Reuters. "I took a South Florida sleigh ride today and I ain't talking Santa Claus." According to the video, at one point he was being chased by one hammerhead while being towed by the one on his line, which gives the Spinal Tap album Shark Sandwich a whole new meaning.

"I threw my bait out and went to reel my other one in so I wouldn't get tangled, and I just had time to pick up the rod before the other one already got picked up by that hammer," Fisk added.

Fisk belongs to Team Rebel Fishing, a group of extreme anglers.

http://www.people.com/people/article...800680,00.html

Bad ass

you can go down to your local aquarium and see that shit.

This dude and I lead very different lives.

Hah. I was down there right after it happened, and they had an article in the paper about it. I meant to post about it here, but forgot in my drunken beach stupor.

There was some controversy about it, because quite a few experts say that fish mortality on a shark that's fought for over an hour is like 90%.

I would need a bigger boat.

That shark was dragging him home for dinner.

LMAO that aint no shit right there.

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There were two shark attacks while I was down there as well. The spinners and black tips are crazy this time of year. Overhead shots just off the break are insane:


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This was happening last year when we were down there. It was freaking AWESOME to watch:

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Sharks were like "surfing" the waves and coming right up to the beach. I was dying that I didn't have a fly rod, as they were chasing the shit out of anything that looked like a baitfish.

Here's some video:
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We didn't see any sharks but we saw a few jellyfish. :D

Oh hell no. F that.

Manowars are plentiful down there always, it seems.

These were small moons but they still hurt like a son of a bitch!

Wow.

I would maybe feel more safe with a rocket launcher or something handy.

Yeah. I hate getting stung by jellyfish. Absolutely miserable if you get hit hard.

Pics aren’t coming through for me. Got a link to them or something?

These guys are pretty damn adorable...

http://teamrebelfishing.com/picture/...leryImage=true

Florida Kayaker Towed for Hours by 11 Foot Hammerhead Shark (Video)
 

Why's that, I wonder?

cut the line?

The fish is injured (hooked) and in a fight for it’s life. They literally expend every ounce of energy they have trying to get away. If not properly revived by forcing water through their gills they can very easily die.

I've had snags just like that in the river. Pffttt.

Ok. I've heard sharks need to continually swimming in order to push water through their gills for oxygen but wasn't sure if that was the actual cause of death.

Fixed it.

Thanks, and Dayam. :eek:

That goes for about any fish that’s in an extended fight.
I fought a 45lb flathead for around 15 minutes, seemed a lot longer when he was spooling my line out, and it took quite a while to revive him. I had to drag him back and forth through the water for several minutes before he finally came to and quit going belly up.

It's much more than that.

Sharks can't "rest". They don't have swim bladders nor do they have any means to express water through their gills.

This is why they can't survive a long fight while most bony fish can...

You guys should check out http://www.ocearch.org/ They have attached trackers to some great whites so you can chart their progress around the world.

Last fall one of their tagged sharks was swimming around right outside the breakers here, just blocks from my house. Those things and the rays you can see out there would make me a bit uneasy about being out in a kayak, but I'm sure that guy has a blast doing it.

2 hours? I'd be dehydrated from shitting myself for that long...

They're watching them swim up the NE coast, off of Mass and Maine. They haven't swum there for a long time.

Absolutely this.

I think the one that was seen here was tagged off cape cod, but it had swam all over the north atlantic. Pretty remarkable the distances they travel

No shit. Either that, or just toss the rod over (I know they're expensive, but **** that).

They "cruise" at ungodly speeds and since the never stop (they can't as was explained earlier) they cover some serious distances in very little time.

Check out where Katharine has been.

I think it would be badass to catch a shark but I would need something one hell of a lot bigger under me than a kayak.

Agreed. I've been on fishing boats in Cabo where they were set up for this with someone to guide me through but never hooked anything like that...

I don't think I'd want to strap a still-alive hammerhead to my kayak even if I did catch it LMAO

Just based on her trajectory, she might have been right around Daytona Beach the same day we were! :D

Sharks are cool.

Checking out some of the sharks on that website, there are some pings inland... land sharks?

Who is it?
Land shark! Uhhhh...pizza guy.

FYP

**** that - I usually only wet my feet in the ocean - what a terribly hopeless feeling.

Isn't it about time we start hearing about surfers at New Smyrna Beach getting their legs and feet bitten?

1 million Japanese businessmen just sprayed their office with jizz.

who else thought just cut the goddamned line, and let the shit go.

My home town!

Knowing that it would be that easy is the reason that I would have let it taken me for a ride as well. That being said, as soon as I seen that second shark running along next or coming from behind, that line would have been cut.

Yeah I would just dump the rod. No thanks ROFL

In the article I read in the Palm Beach paper, he actually let the shark tow him close to a convenient take out point, then he did cut the line.

Different headline if that was me:
"Arizona Man Sets 3 Guinness Records. Longest distance a fishing pole was thrown, fastest speed achieved in a kayak headed towards shore, most consecutive shots consumed at a beach side bar".

Yeah cool story, caught this a few days ago...these ocean going kayak fisherman are a ballsy bunch no doubt, what if that big sucker had decided to turn around and attack its tormenter?

Those things tip over very easily, or what if it was a marlin? those things are well known for leaping and stabbing at anglers aboard much larger craft... I would've cut the line the moment I saw how big that sucker was.

From shore like these guys? no prob... but not on some freakin kayak...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1j...florida_travel

These guys fish for the sharks half mile out from the beach too. I'll be out there swimming while the guy hauls the meat out to set it out. Glad I didn't get caught in their line.

Was thinking the same thing but it looked like he was enjoying himself and just wanted the catch and underwater video of what he caught. Pretty sure the line was cut eventually.

If that attention whore landed a 10 foot hammerhead on that vessel he sure as shit would have caught it on video and posted it for the world to see.

Not sure if by "take out point" you mean that they were about to attack him or something I don't understand the reference to.
But if they were going to attack or something like that it would be hard to get out of that kayak. I remember always being told that if there was sharks around to try and go under water and be in a vertical position so you didn't look like food to the sharks. I just don't know if I could get out of the kayak and do all that. I doubt there was a place for a glock in there with him but I think I would try to either be still or paddle without splashing about.

No. Somewhere easily accessible from the road where he could get his kayak out and back on a "shuttle" vehicle easily and quickly without having to paddle forever. A matter of convenience, not safety.

Oh hell no. I don't **** with the ocean. The open sea horrifies me, especially that close

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