You’ve never seen shark fishing quite like this before. This video was shot from the beach in northern Florida during the annual Blacktip Shark migration, which we brought you footage of last week when a school of blacktip sharks the size of 10 football fields showed up near Louisiana. This time around we’ve got footage of some bros fishing off the coast of Florida for sharks, but using topwater lures. Topwater lures are typically reserved for skinny water fishing, like when you’re fishing for bass or redfish, but these dudes are getting pretty sizable blacktip sharks to throw their entire bodies out of the water trying to eat the topwater plugs.
While there’s no footage of them actually catching the sharks, and only of the sharks in a ridiculous frenzy of attack, it’s still enough to make me rethink swimming in the Gulf of Mexico during the annual blacktip shark migration. Right now all the blacktip sharks that went down to the Florida Keys for Winter are swimming their way back up to the northern Gulf of Mexico, to the calm waters of Louisiana and such. But on their way it seems they’re willing to go nuts and eat just about anything that moves in the waves off the beach. Those bros were fishing FROM THE SAND, not out off a boat. Those sharks are swimming in depths that you or I would if we spent a day at that beach, and that’s a little jarring.
Some highlights in GIF….They just REFUSE to give up on a meal:
Shout out to the bros at BlacktipH Fishing for capturing this awesome footage, and if they ever want to drag a lowly blogger from Florida along with them on a fishing trip I’ll happily oblige and blog the everlivingshit out of the experience!