Jeff Thomason, host of the hunting show Predator Pursuit, landed a 11-foot, 809-pound Mako shark bow fishing.
It took him 30 minutes to get the massive shark near his boat off the coast Los Angeles, California.
Thomason told Lone Star Outdoor News ‘They’ve got to be about three feet from the boat to get the arrow to stick, so we threw a fish on a line and teased him to the boat,’
‘I try and shoot for the top of the back. As soon as the arrow hit, all hell broke loose.
‘We freaked out because I spined him and we thought he might sink.’
400lbs of shark meat was donated to a local shelter.
According to National Oceanic and Atmopheric Administration Fisheries, mako sharks are “especially vulnerable to overfishing because they take many years to mature and have relatively few young at a time”.
