He clearly didn’t need a bigger boat — or any boat at all.
A stunned local fisherman reeled in a great white shark from an Anastasia Island beach Tuesday — reportedly the first time the apex predator has been hauled in from an east coast Florida shore.
“Something’s jumping out there,’ Alberto Vanegas can be heard saying as his line whizzed furiously.
The Fernandina Beach resident said he was hunting for bull sharks and flew a tuna head some 400-feet out from shore using a drone before his reel began to squeal.
After a grueling 30-minute showdown, Vanegas and a pal pulled the 9 to 10 footer onto the sand and admired their triumph in shock.
“Biologists, researchers, and locals are all stunned and amazed that this apex predator was caught here and from the beach,” he wrote on a Facebook post, adding that it was the first time a great white was successfully caught from the shores of Florida’s east coast.
“I am so excited and will continue to honor land-based shark fishing and conservation of these magnificent animals,” he wrote.
The epic capture drew amazement online, with posters congratulating Vanegas on the catch.
Having supplied his conquerer with the fishing story of a lifetime, the enormous creature was carefully dragged back into the surf and disappeared back into the deep.
