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Ack kayak9/27/2023 ![]() ![]() “When you hook them up, they’ll come back and wreak vengeance on you. “One of the things you have to realize is a lot of species of sharks have a bit of a temper,” he said. They have oversized things like their pectoral fins and their tail fins are actually wider.”īut Austin did the right thing by cutting the line and letting the animal go, he said. “At that age they’re kind of like puppies. The shark was a juvenile, between 1.5 and two metres in length, and probably weighed between 45 and 70 kilograms, he said. The other shark species that are similar in the Bay of Fundy waters are porbeagle and mako sharks, but they are slimmer and bluish, he said. He said it could be identified by its stocky body profile, distinct dorsal fin and black colouring on its top. Chris Harvey-Clark, a veterinarian at Dalhousie University, helped confirm the animal Austin hooked was indeed a great white shark. “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.ĭr. He said after being cut loose the shark swam a little distance and breached, then returned to circle Austin’s kayak before taking off. On the video he filmed, he can be heard exclaiming “Holy lifting!” and a few other choice words, before he decided he would need to cut the line. Then he saw the large, grey fish he had hooked swim near the surface, mere feet from the bow of his kayak. “I sincerely thought it was a dolphin or a huge striped bass.” “It was quite the adrenalin rush for sure,” he said with a laugh. He turned on the GoPro camera on his hat and began trying to reel in his catch. However, I had no idea it was a shark - ever - the entire time it was out there.” “It wasn’t very long, just minutes and my reel starts to click,” he recalled.Īustin, a retired Royal Canadian Air Force sergeant, said his thoughts went to the 1975 movie “Jaws” because of a scene in which a character’s reel is clicking as he prepares for a big catch. It was a perfect scenario.”īut after three hours without a single bite, he decided to switch up his bait, putting a live mackerel on a stainless steel hook. “When I got there, I anchored, and everything was perfect. “I didn’t want to get too far out because it was my first time out there, and also I was alone,” he said in an interview Tuesday from his home in Eastern Passage, N.S. He was looking for striped bass, and he set out his fishing rods with baits. ![]() On a perfect summer morning July 30, when the wind was just right and the water was calm, Austin anchored his kayak off Kingsport in the Minas Basin, which feeds into the Bay of Fundy. 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. ![]()
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