Hours after dropping bait into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, anglers Trey Linder and Steve Callaway hauled in an 11-foot-8-inch tiger shark off Pensacola’s West End Beach.
They tagged the shark for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research, then posed with the slick-skinned predator, prying open its jaws to reveal its rows of comb-shaped teeth before releasing it back into the water.
The whole process, which started at 5 a.m., took about three minutes, the anglers wrote in a Facebook post, adding that “experience is key.”…