Predator jumps while attacking hooked fish
only a few feet away,
in an event captured on videotape.
Isaac Brumaghim was fighting a small
tuna from his kayak Sunday when all of a sudden the fish became
“heavy” and he could no longer gain line. Suddenly, immediately
behind him, the tuna jumped and the surface erupted as a huge shark
emerged and filled the frame on a mounted camera. Brumaghim,
who was fishing off western Oahu, had captured this dramatic event–
and his reaction on video.
“I swear I could hear the shark’s jaws chomp closed,
” said Brumaghim, who believes the predator was either a tiger shark
or Galapagos shark.
What the footage does not show, however, is that
devoured the fish and swam in a circle around Brumaghim before
swimming off.
“It was as if the shark was taunting me,”
Brumaghim said.“It gave me the heebie-jeebies.”
Brumaghim, 37, is a Penn-sponsored angler and director of
Aquahunters, a club for serious kayak fishermen. He has seen lots
of sharks, and had lost many fish to sharks, but had never heard of
one jumping out of the water in pursuit of a hooked fish.
He and a friend were the only anglers in the vicinity on Sunday,
trying to bolster their standing in the 2013 Makahiki World Championships,
a season-long competition that awards points depending on the
types and weights of fish caught.
The friend did not see the jumping shark because he had been
battling a smaller shark at the time.
“And I had already lost another fish to a shark,” Brumaghim said.
“There were lots of sharks around that day.”
