That’s some bad luck.
I mean, it’s about as cool as it gets in a way, but losing a nice fish, especially to another animal, always hurts a bit.
It wouldn’t be the devastation of it just getting off your hook and you wondering what you did wrong for the next hour, but it would still hurt.
The ocean, it’s a place of the unknown and unexpected. The more time you spend there the more wild stuff you will witness. For me, I’m good… when I’m in water I feel like a fish out of it. A shark would have its way with me everyday of the week.
Having one come this close is pretty wild.
This group of fishermen in Australia were out for a day of fun when one of them hooked into a nice Spanish mackerel. He has a good fight with it but gets it right into the boat. His buddy goes to gaff it but misses so the fish takes back off for a short run.
Just as he gets it back reeled you see a shark appear quickly, starring right at the fish. It takes off and gets a few quick bites in taking the fish right off the line.
If they hadn’t had missed the gaff the first time it would have been in the boat.
But, then again you wouldn’t have a story this good…
