Shark advocate Elliot Sudal described his experience as 'unreal.'
A fisherman caught a huge tiger shark off the coast of Florida, in what he says is his biggest ever catch.
Alongside an image of him tagging the hulking creature in the waters off the coast of Captiva, he wrote: “Well I caught my biggest shark ever today. Sudal set off with a cooler full of bonito fish. But after 25 hours, nothing took the bait. So the pair started their journey back to the city of Sanibel in southwest Florida, and he chanced tossing their final bonito into the water.
“After about 5 hours and being dragged around many miles, attempting to slow it down, and realizing what it was, we return to the sandbar. I’ve never dealt with a shark this size, and in my experience they are much easier to tag, blood sample and remove the hook when in shallow water.”Sudal said the shark was almost as big as his boat. On the shore, Sudal tagged the animal and took a blood and fin sample.
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