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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Here is a cool video my buddy in Australia emailed me a link to. Do you think the billfisherman are complaining that the sharks are eating all their marlin? 
Enjoy
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Location: APPLETON, WI | Thanks for sharing! That was sweet! |
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| Unbelievable, kind of like when the sharks attack the tarpon at Boca Grande. Amazing perspective with the cameraman in the water! Very cool. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | LOL if that was me filming I know more than just pee would be in the water! Wow!
Very cool
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Wow. |
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Location: Richfield, MN | That was awesome. Like James said I think I would have shart mysekf if I was in the water, THe guy just keeps right on filming as if it was no big deal!!!
Thanks for the link
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Location: (South of the 218) | That got my juices flowing for sure! |
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Location: Medford, WI | In the words of Chris Farley....That was AWWESSSSOME!
Thanks for sharing. |
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Location: Birchwood, WI. | Holy s#@t..!! That looked like a great white shark..INSANE FOR SURE!!! Thanks for the vid!!! |
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Location: West Virginia | Great Video. I think I would have skipped across that water lol. |
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| Whoa. How easily the photographer could have been the prey instead of the viewer....amazing.
I've said it a million times and I will continue to say it again: Mother Nature, with wild animals/fish, always has a way of being brutal within the food chain. Imagine the stuff we humans DON'T see with our own eyes and/or capture on film! |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | It was a monster mako that was chewing on that striped marlin. After quite some time the Australian government finally lifted a ban on fishing for makos. Many of the offshore guys have been going mako crazy since october. There are some giants there for sure.
Last year when I was fishing off the north east coast of Australia, we had seen several feeding frenzies off the reef when we were sticking yellowfins. It was crazy. A couple days later we decided to go for a swim on the reef and do some spear fishing. It was amazing - terrifying but amazing - We weren't seeing any big sharks, just a few 3-4 foot reef sharks. We made our way towards the edge where the big coral trout live and as soon as we speared one a dozen or so huge oceanic white tips came flying in after the trout, and very interested in us. We had to punch them away as they came toward us. Several of them were in the 8-9 foot range. As soon as we got back on the boat, our adrenalin was pumping so fast we were considering going back in - Until the captain told us that we had no idea how close we came to getting bit.
For any multi-species fisherman, the GBR is the holy grail. The fish there are bigger and badder than anywhere I have ever fished. If anyone ever has a chance to go there - GO! ANd do it all! |
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Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | Awesome! I would have peed myself if I was in the water....no doubt about it |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Would that be more their version of shortline trolling or is it more like dragging suckers?
Crazy footage. That's just nuts how easily that shark bit through the tail section. The girth in that area was probably bigger than what most of the muskies I catch carry. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be in the water!
Tucker
Edited by curleytail 4/1/2011 12:46 PM
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Very cool Jerry. A few years back, fishing around Islamorada, a big shark went after a tarpon I had on the line. Was total chaos. As I fought the tarpon, the guide drove the boat at the shark in an effort to scare it off. The shark eventually got the tarpon and the whole mess went screaming away from the boat. Peeled off a ton of line then it broke. We sat and watched the water boil, the tarpon jumped out of the middle of it and then it went quiet again. Not sure who won that battle. LOL. Unbelievable experience. My guide estimated the shark's size around 13' and the tarpon was roughly 70#.
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Location: Maryland | Sweeeeeeeett
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Not to go all PETA here or anything, but it seems like a huge waste of a billfish. I realize that the shark came out of nowhere, but the guys in the boat just stood there then, holding the billfish's head up while the shark chewed it to pieces.
I don't know, but it just seemed a bit cruel to me. Call me a sap, I guess...
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | PETA, a group of People Eating Tasty Animals. |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | As a joke, every time the camera man tried to get out of the water, the guys in the boat should have put a foot on his head and pushed him back in.
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | I think that mako had a mouthful of marlin before the guys knew what was going on - Besides gassed marlin are pretty slow to swim away. It would have been lunch either way. In 2002 I was fishing in a sailfish tourney in Islamorada where a ton of fish were released. A few days after the contest one of the captains caught and killed a big bull shark in the same vicinity. It had remains of 11 different sailfish in it's belly. It's survival of the fittest out there - Unfortunately the angler is the middle man helping the fittest get fatter! |
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| Cool video! Someday I will get to Australia for two weeks! I have had Mako's kill Mahi-Mahi in Mexico a few times - Mako's are CRAZY fast! Thanks for Sharing. |
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| That video was awesome! |
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Insane video