A shark fishing expert landed a monster on a Florida beach Wednesday when he singlehandedly reeled in a 1,200-pound, 12-foot great white shark.
Blaine Kenny, who owns Coastal Worldwide, a shark fishing outfitter and fishing tour group in Pensacola, and his business partner, Dylan Wier, set themselves up on Tuesday night at on Navarre Beach, about 25 miles east of Pensacola, aiming to catch the “biggest sharks possible,” they said on their YouTube channel .
The duo set out on their mission by “using the biggest bait possible” — a head of a 150-pound swordfish head and a head of an 80-pound yellowfin tuna head, The Miami Herald reported .
At 8 a.m. the following morning, there was a tug on Kenny’s line, and he started to reel in the fish.
“He just jumped!”‘ Kenny says in the video.
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The entire process took an hour, since Kenny would draw in the fish and it would pull back out into the water. “He’s not letting me take anything,” he explains in the clip, which is close to 25 minutes long.