It’s almost funny seeing false titles and comments like this on these posts.
That’s almost 100% that kids catch, and he’s doing his due diligence as a fisherman to remove the hook and release the shark.
He’s definitely not a random dude, and this shark didn’t end up on that beach on its own.
Edit: I said almost 100%. If nothing else, he knows or is with who caught the shark. A stranger grabbing and unhooking your catch just doesn’t happen like this.
Eating the fish is the best type of fishing there is. That way at least there's a reason. The downside is you don't get to pretend you're doing a good deed lol.
I've never heard someone make the argument that sport fishing is more moral than fishing for food. I don't have a problem with either I just don't understand the "depleting resources from nature". You're gonna eat something eventually.
For the same reason you shoot guns at a shooting range instead of at people. Some people fish to eat. Some people catch and release. Some people hunt. Some people go to the range. It’s…really not that hard to comprehend.
That analogy does not work very well since at the shooting range you shoot inanimous objects. We do not go to shooting range to shoot animals just a little bit and then let them go.
You think its more likely that a live shark with a hook in it's mouth just happened to get washed up on the beach and that guy just happened to have 'tools in his vehicle?'
Or do you think this guy was fishing and this is just a fake title from a bot?
EDIT: The man with pliers says "my hook" 2 different times in the video. He caught the shark, fake title confirmed
Can confirm, I have basically a full toolbox of hand tools in my truck plus a 3/8" impact as well as a jump starter, first aid kit (with trauma kit) and a vehicle recovery kit including tire plugs, shim and Jimmy and a tow strap.
Just in case.
And as a matter of fact it came in hand a few months back when someone drove into a retention pond and couldn't get their doors open (the car wasn't sinking, just stuck in mud) and were too freaked out to roll down their windows (or maybe the car shut off and had no power? Don't really know) but someone yelled for a hammer and who do you think had a 3lb sledge in the truck? This guy
The fact that "on shore shark fishing" actually exists and is quite popular puts quite the doubt on your naive presumption that they were going after some other fish.
Doesn't change the fact he's doing catch and release, he caught the wrong kind of shark. It's traumatic enough for them they usually end up dying anyway.
Say what you want about fishing, but legally he cannot keep this shark, it's just a casualty now of his other fishing activities. It's unfortunate because normal fish usually survive catch and release, it's traumatic but not deadly. Sharks physiology handles being beached about as well as a whale
Look… if somebody gets a flat tire u know what they gon’ do right? Put the spare on ? Hell no. They gonna start crying then call girlfriend or dad or he might be actually calling his boyfriend to cry about his situation… what good are tools if using them requires breaking a nail
Definitely someone shark fishing, as someone who's done it once you can't catch a shark without being prepared to take a hook out of a shark's mouth. My friend pulled the hook out while I grabbed the tail and then pulled it into the water. You should really be wearing kevlar gloves for this.
I would agree . I typically have some sort of small multitool with me no matter where I go. Beach , pool, work, playground with kids . That shit comes in handy the moment you don’t have it .
Agree but you’d hope he’d know to put the pliers deeper and nearer the tip of the hook. He stayed up where he was trying with his hand. But hey, he got it
It's like the story about the pack of dogs that escaped the meat shop in china recently coming out as being completely fabricated, they were just some rando dogs in china they filmed and decided to make up a story around it, but reddit loves a good narrative
Sort of. Critically thinking though, whoever caught that shark isn’t going to let someone snatch his shark like that. So at minimum he is with whoever caught it, and isn’t some random hero.
Source: I fish on the coast, and have been around fishing my whole life. Random people unhooking your fish (or shark) just doesn’t happen.
Like I get it where you're coming from, but you're still making many assumptions like the title.
The shark could have washed up on shore, it happens, and already had the hook in (if it's a popular fishing spot, then it's not a crazy thought). Someone else could have caught the shark but couldn't or was too scared to remove the hook so the rando jumped in. It could have been his catch and the title is completely wrong. Any one of those is likely.
I'm not saying you're wrong or anything, I'm just pointing out that your critical thinking isn't much different than the title.
A shark washing up with a perfect hookset with fishermen behind it? Highly unlikely
A random person jumping in to unhook someone else’s catch? High unlikely.
Unless someone has the actual context behind the video it’s all guesses. The main difference is I’m owning up mine are educated guesses having been around this, whereas, it’s frustrating to see (most likely) made up titles on a group from people looking for free karma.
Regardless, no matter what it’s titled unless OP has the context, my point of using a fake story for karma stands.
I wonder though - that is a HUGE fishing hook - looks like something you'd use out in the open ocean for tuna fish or whatever. I'm not sure what somebody would be trying to catch from shore with a hook like that. Right off of sandy beach like that there would be no large fish to catch - unless this guy was actually fishing for shark on purpose, just for the sport of it..
I may be wrong here, I do not fish with a pole, but I've certainly been around a lot of it
My whole life, mainly on the coast in Florida. even if he was a stander by, (which further evidence provided by someone else shows he in fact wasn’t) if he was, there was a conversation had.
Going up to and taking it upon yourself to unhook someone else’s catch without asking/communicating is not generally well received.
At least to me, someone can still be considered a rando even if you did talk to them cause it's someone you don't know yet, but let's not mince words. I see what you meant now. My b
"The shark left the water because he wanted to be on our soil, it's American soil, and let me tell you it's the best soil. It's so good. Other countries they don't have soil as good as ours, that's why they're losers, that's why their sharks stay in the waters and ours don't."
He may have been passing by and a kid maybe caught the shark while fishing for other stuff and didn’t know how to handle it, so he stepped in. When I was about 12, I was fishing on a boat with family friends and I hooked a nurse shark. My pole was set up for catching red snapper, and I honestly thought I had just hooked a piece of heavy trash on the ocean floor. Slowly I reeled it in, there was no big fight, just heavy heavy weight. Carefully I reels it in and when it was close enough I saw the 6’ shark and as a kid I was like “wtf now?!” I could deal with a red snapper myself, but a 6 foot shark? lol I was lost in the sauce, my dude. I had to get an adult to handle that situation, which they did by pulling the shark alongside the boat, reaching down with some looooong hair pliars to remove the hook, and right as they did that the shark thrashed, snapped the line, and sadly the hook didn’t get removed before it swam off. So that’s another plausible scenario, he’s helping someone else who got in over their head, but I would say almost certainly this man is a fisherman, as evident by his comfort handling the fish and removing the hook.
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u/Basicallyacrow7 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
It’s almost funny seeing false titles and comments like this on these posts.
That’s almost 100% that kids catch, and he’s doing his due diligence as a fisherman to remove the hook and release the shark.
He’s definitely not a random dude, and this shark didn’t end up on that beach on its own.
Edit: I said almost 100%. If nothing else, he knows or is with who caught the shark. A stranger grabbing and unhooking your catch just doesn’t happen like this.
Edit 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/s/aGSvNaqAFg
Another commenter who has more info supporting what my comment is saying.