Nova Scotia angler hooks juvenile great white shark and story of a lifetime
Rick Austin knew he had hooked a big one as his fishing rod bent and he reeled furiously from his kayak off the Nova Scotia coast, but he never dreamt there would be a great white shark on the end of the line.
But after three hours without a single bite, he decided to switch up his bait, putting a live mackerel on a stainless steel hook. “It wasn’t very long, just minutes and my reel starts to click,” he recalled.Austin, a retired Royal Canadian Air Force sergeant, said his thoughts went to the 1975 movie“This is exactly what I did. However, I had no idea it was a shark — ever — the entire time it was out there.
Rick Austin catches a juvenile great white shark while fishing for striped bass in the Minas Basin, N.S., in this handout photo.He said after being cut loose the shark swam a little distance and breached, then returned to circle Austin’s kayak before taking off. “My heart was thumping so fast that I couldn’t hear anything — the birds and stuff — if they were even there, I was totally unaware of,” he said.Dr.
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