Young angler JD Fagan , while night fishing in landed a monstrous shark from Ft. Lauderdale beach, Florida.
He paddled out a line baited with a stingray, waited less than 3 hours before he felt a tug, and 45 minutes later he and three others friends were fighting with a tiger shark measuring about 12 feet and weighing sure more than 850 pounds.
They released the shark very quickly because it was pregant. In fact they measured only the length (11 feet and 9 inches) and did not have time to measure the girth.
This huge tiger shark is the latest of several large sharks caught from Florida beaches during the last year or so, including a great white shark landed in early May near Panama City.
This kind of night shark fishing is becoming very popular, there are a lot of people doing this now.
Bull sharks, hammerheads, tiger sharks, an sometimes white sharks are among species of large sharks being hooked and, in most cases, released.
