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Mike and I went out Striper fishing yesterday afternoon. The bite was slow until around 7pm and then we started seeing a few Bass getting landed by the boats around us in a giant bunker school off of Spring Lake, NJ. I was sort of spacing out staring off the stern of the boat when a gigantic Thresher Shark came and blasted a bunch of bunker out of the water with his giant scythe tail about 20 feet behind my boat. I almost crapped my pants. A couple of seconds later the drag on my Shimano Torium 16 started screaming and I knew that we were in for a world of hurt. We were into the fish for more than an hour and we didn't have a gaff, a gun, a bang stick, or a hand grenade to kill it. All I have is this boring video where you don't get to see the Shark because the camera died and by the time we had the fish subdued at the side of the boat it was pitch black outside and we were the last boat on the water. I showed this video to my son and he said it sucked because you don't get to see the shark. He's sort of right, but if you love fishing you will hopefully be able to relate to the sheer chaos, agony, confusion, and unpreparedness that you experience when hooking a fish that has you completely outmatched in every way. As far as I'm concerned we landed the damn thing, which was about 6 feet of Shark with an additional 4 feet of tail.

By the way, if you think this video is boring I want you to know that I edited it down from 40 minutes to 5 minutes, so just watch the damn thing.

That's my fishing report.

-Mickey

Bahhhaha. No gimbal either. Bet you have some nice bruises from the rod butt.

That is totally nuts. I love it.

Seriously insane. Your gear held up well. That must have took a lot out of you. Well done.

Damn, thats some old man and the sea shit there. Did you have to cut it loose when you got it in?

"he said it sucked because you don't get to see the shark." ha ha! Classic!

Looks like you had a blast.

The look-back at the camera is classic "now what?"
great edit, cool story!

Dude, that is seriously awesome.