'It took awhile. It took 45 minutes or an hour to catch it.' 9News
It was quite the day for a family who was visiting Fort Lauderdale from Boston on Tuesday.
They went out about 2kms off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, when a great white shark, which was about 3.5m long and weighed about 100kg, took their bait.Young American angler Cambell Keenan, right, reeled in a great white shark off the Florida coast on January 17, 2023.
The fishing party realised they had "something pretty substantial" when the great white took the initial bite from about 300m out, Palucci said. The fishermen reeled the shark to take the line out of its mouth, then to measure its mouth and tag it.READ MORE:His previous biggest catch was a 60cm long striper fish, he said.Shark leaps onto front of boat during fishing trip
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