This had taken place a couple of years ago, and I was with one of my buddies and we were doing some fishing in the bahamas. See it’s real easy to get in some deep sea fishing when in the bahamas because you only need to go out about 50 yards and you are in a thousand feet of water, wish I could fish there every day. So my buddy and I brought out some heavy duty fishing tackle and a couple of deep sea fishing rods, along with some light spinners. We had a good det up, plenty of lures, hooks, and many different kinds of fishing set-ups at our disposal in the tackle box.

So we rigged up some lines and used the gps to find a ship wreck, this was only in about 20 feet of water, a couple of feet to the left was a thousand foot dropoff. We were using some spinning rods and were getting some really nice snapper, drank a couple of beers, caught some more. We had about 8 or 9 keepers, so we were going to eat that night, but we caught a lot of junk fish also. I think if I can remeber correctly, there was a cat fish that we had caught, so we decided to get out the deep sea fishing rod and hook it up. So the bait we were using was about 2-3 pounds, we cut the tail of off the bait so it would bleed. The Bahamas is loaded with sharks, so a wounded bleeding fish as bait is not going to take that long until something big comes and scoops it up.

About 15 minutes later, I hear the drag on the deep sea fishing reel go off, there was something on the line, something huge. The fish had ran for about ten minutes until I could get a full reel in, once I started to reel in I think I got about 2 rotations and then the fish ran off again, about another 5oo feet. This fish was big, so I put on the fighting belt, and just started to work’em. Lift up, reel down, over and over. After about 45 minutes of this fish whooping my ass it finally got near the boat. It was a nurse shark, a huge nurse shark, probably about 12 foot. We were in a small boat so there was no way we were going to land it, we didn’t have the right tools to do it anyways. So I fought the shark hard for about 10 minutes while it was near the boat, trying to get it as close to the boat as I could so that we could get some good pictures of it. I think we got some pretty good ones, here are a few shots of the nurse shark below, this is by far the biggest fish that I have ever caught.