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| Two men fishing in the Minas Basin got a quite a surprise Tuesday afternoon when a great white shark tried to steal their catch.
Ken Dill and his brother were out in a 14 foot boat in the Bay of Fundy near Walton. The pair had caught a couple of large bass. They had them on a rope in the water to keep them fresh. "The shark just came up and took the two of them in his mouth," Dill told NEWS 95.7's The Rick Howe Show. "It shook the boat, the water was flying, all you could do was hang on." He figures the great white was between 8 and 10 feet long. "I didn't see it until about the same time it hit the fish," he said. "By then, I could have reached out and touched it. It was right at the back of the boat." Dill was so shocked and didn't think to fear for his life. He said the shark wasn't able to break the rope to steal the fish. After about 30 seconds of trying, it gave up, but stuck around for a while. "It went down below, about a couple hundred feet from the boat, and it just zig-zagged back and forth." Dill is well aware there are sharks in the Minas Basin, and he had even seen a fin or two before this close encounter, but he doesn't plan on letting that stop him from fishing. "I'm going out this afternoon if I can get there," he said. Source |
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/great-white-shark-snatches-striped-bass-from-n-s-fisherman
https://www.ocearch.org/ocearch-tracks-return-of-4-white-sharks-to-nova-scotia/
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