Kona Kayaker Beats Tiger Shark to Boat Big Tuna
” With all the 400-plus-pound yellowfin tuna in the news these days, a mere 114 ½-pounder doesn’t rank as spectacular in size. But of course everything is relative.
If you’ve paddled out to deep blue depths in a 13 ½-foot piece of plastic, and from that platform hooked and — for more than three hours — fought that 114 ½-pounder, with a big tiger shark hot on its caudal fin, that makes the catch seem a bit more spectacular. “
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awesome a tiget shark? amazing he didn’t take a bite out of it, and a one hundred pound fish from a kayak is awesome, I would love to do something like that. glad the tiger shark went hungry.
Yes , it must have been quite a fight . I can imagine being towed around it that plastic shell by one of the strongest swimmers in the sea .