A 12-year-old boy caught a great white shark off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida. (WSVN) – A 12-year-old avid angler caught a great white shark off the coast of South Florida.

It was a beautiful day for a family that had come to Fort Lauderdale from Boston. They had sailed about a mile off the coast of Fort Lauderdale when their bait caught a great white shark about 11 feet long and weighing several hundred pounds.

Now the Keenan family has a story to tell.

Campbell Keenan loves to fish.

“Well, it was a pretty slow day, we were just catching some fish, and then all of a sudden, when they started reeling it in, it lost resistance and I was like, ‘Is this thing going to pull me in? ’cause I was just scared,” he said.

“We had to hold on to him. We had to make sure he didn’t get off the boat,” said Colleen Keenan, his mother. “He had to hold on to the reel and he was strapped in, not really, so it was scary.”

Campbell sat down and continued the fight with the help of captain Paul Palucci and David Jackson.

“It took some time. It took 45 minutes or an hour to catch him,” Palucci said. “We knew we had something pretty substantial from the first bite, which took about 300 yards.”

“We will fight until the fight is over and it just so happens to be a great white,” Jackson said.

“I was so excited for him because he loves fishing so much and it’s the best thing you could ever imagine,” Colleen said, “and once we knew it was a big white one, it was easy, we were through the roof.” “.

The fishermen pulled the shark out to get the line out of its mouth, then measured its mouth and tagged it.

“One hundred and thirty inches long, it was about 450 pounds, and it was an absolutely beautiful woman,” Palucci said.

They tagged the shark so experts could study its migration pattern. Then they let her go.

“Feels very impressive, I mean, this is the biggest fish I have ever caught,” Campbell said. “Before that, it was a 25-inch scriber. It’s a 130-inch great white shark.”

Now the researchers will be able to trace where the shark will go next.

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