TJ Minutillo, a 21-year-old college student, posted on Instagram a photo of him alongside a huge shark nearly 400 pounds (180 kilos) and 8 feet long on the shoreline of a Long Island (NY) beach.
The feat occurred last Saturday, when the young Manhasset resident launched a network of robins to lure the bull shark on Nickerson Beach, he said in remarks yesterday. New York Post.
On that same beach, yesterday in the early afternoon a 6-foot shark was sighted near the coast, causing a eviction of bathers for the third consecutive day on Long Island. Hours later, another shark was seen near Point Lookout.
In total, they have been seen eight sharks Monday through Wednesday this week on Long Island reported Pix11.
Minutillo’s big catch was first reported by the newspaper Southwest Dutchess Daily Voice.
Sport fishing is a “great hobby” for Minutillo, a student at Clemson University in South Carolina.
He started fishing at the age of three and estimates that has caught about 300 sandbar sharks, they are smaller and mostly harmless.
This catch occurred on Saturday, two days before a 63-year-old New York swimmer – fashion executive – died attacked by a shark in Maine.
“I’ve always been fascinated by the ocean in general, so I think it’s really cool to see them around him, “said Minutillo.
But “it can be a bit of a concern when you end up in a situation like the woman in Maine,” she added, referring to the attack that killed Julie Dimperio Holowach in Maine.
“Most of the time they are harmlessMinutillo said. “But sometimes weird things happen.”
At least four large white sharks lurk in the local waters of New York and Jersey, and another was on the way, the shark tracker reported in mid-July Ocearch.
Previously, at the end of June, a 7-foot (2.1-meter) “cub” shark appeared swimming and then died in Rockaway Beach (Queens), just two days before the city’s beaches finally opened for bathers after the coronavirus pandemic.
???? Everybody out! The red flag is up at Lido West Beach. Head lifeguard tells me a fin was seen at Nickerson Beach. Third day in a row of shark sightings at Nassau County South Shore beaches. @PIX11News ???? #shark #longisland pic.twitter.com/Ylvjo5zhok
— Allison Kaden (@akadennews) July 29, 2020
* Bull Shark * A fisherman caught a massive bull shark off the Long Island coast. #DailyVoice https://t.co/Iy5QP9L6Xt
— DV Putnam County (@PutnamDV) July 29, 2020
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