Summer 2001 I was in my 16 foot kayake fishing < than 300 yards from the
local beach in Homosassa Florida. I had a large live shrimp on a steel leader
looking for cobia or a big red fish to catch. Both give a real thrill to you when fishing from a kayake. I had seen dorsal fins all day by the oyster bar I was fishing next to. I thought they were tarpoon. Wasn't looking to hook up with one in the Kayake that day.
Then my line went limp and I reeled it in and set the hook on a monster.
My kayake went up on plane I went flying away from the beach out in the Golf of Mexico. Then it turned and came right back at me.
It was an 8 foot Tiger and I'm sitting 6 inches off the water. It took me on 2 more runs before it chewed through the wire leader. All witnessed by Marine patrol. The beach was closed for the day. Tiger sharks eat tarpoon or anything else they feel like. My heart pounded for hours. Someone with a vidio
camera on the beach caught some of the action though it was fuzzy.