Fisherman Hooks Shark. Freaks The Eff Out.

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Elliot Gordon and his friend Paul Adlington were out on a Christmas Eve fishing trip in New Zealand when they hooked a big bronze whaler shark.

This being 2015, there’s a video of the moment. And Gordon’s reaction to having a breaching shark on the other end of his line is completely understandable – he freaks.

Gordon told The New Zealand Herald: 

“It was scary because it was jumping quite close to the boat. When it gets that close you’re hoping it’s not going to jump into the boat,” he said.

“If that happened, I would be jumping out of the boat and swimming for the shore.”

“I was excited — you can hear it in my voice on the video, I was screaming,” he said.

“We actually had guys coming past us on their wakeboards and I thought ‘if they knew what was underneath them right now they wouldn’t be out here’.”

h/t – The New Zealand Herald