A Nantucket shark was showed who's boss by a man who wrestled it. Elliot Sudal was caught on video pulling a shark out of surf with his bare hands.
After catching plenty of blue fish and bass, Sudal is after a bigger catch.
"I've been a fisherman my whole life," Sudal said according to CNN. "It's almost like a drug -- I got used to catching bigger and bigger fish."
The 24-year-old got his big catch on Sunday after he caught a bluefish that was missing half of it's body. He knew something even bigger was in the water.
"I get back half a bluefish. It's got the stereotypical shark bite out of it," he said.
He threw the fish back into the water in the hopes that the shark would come back. It did. Within a minute, the 7-foot, 200 pound sandshark came back to finish its snack. What the shark wasn't expecting was for Sudal to jump into the water and grab it.
"That particular shark took about 45 minutes to get in," he said.
Sudal didn't keep the shark for long. Once he got it out of the water, he posed for a few pictures and then let it go back into the water.
"I always let them go. I'm not trying to hurt the sharks," he said.
This isn't the only shark that Sudal has wrestled. He says that he has caught more than 100 sharks over the past eight months. Most of his catches were in Florida, were he would catch as many as five sharks a day. He sometimes appeared in the local paper for his catches, but people took particular notice when he caught a shark in front of onlooker on a Nantucket beach.
"I got that really cool picture of it. My boss said you should send that to the newspaper here," he said.
Sudal has become a hit with the ladies. He says he has received about 100 calls from women he didn't know. However he's also drawn critics. Some have expressed concerns over Sudal causing injuries to sharks.
Sudal claims that he supports conservation efforts and even has a degree in environmental science.
"I just played around with this guy," he said. "I love the feeling -- it's like a connection with the animal."
Sudal doesn't plan to give up his hobby.
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