Remind Me Not to Go Fishing…
Area angler Dennis lands potential record with 1,280-pound sharkAs the 14-foot great hammerhead shark he’d hooked was dragging his boat out 12 miles into the Gulf of Mexico, Bucky Dennis looked over at a friend helping to drive the boat while he was fighting the giant predator.
“Hey,” one said to another. “Isn’t there a movie about this?”
Maybe so, but “Jaws” was fiction. The potential world-record shark Dennis landed Tuesday afternoon is very real.
They are saying that this could be the baby (all 14 feet of him) of the famous shark referred to as Hitler who seems to like the area. And Hitler is known to be 22 feet.
“It’s fun hooking them, but if you get too close, they will bite,” Dennis said. “I had one try to eat my trolling motor — he inhaled my whole trolling motor, shook it once or twice, then let it go.
“They are mean and will bite. And whatever they bite, they will bite off.”
Shopping is fun… fighting with sharks must be a guy thing!
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