While fishing for thresher sharks, Travis Bogin caught a five-and-a-half foot great white off the coast of New Jersey last week.
“I noticed when it was about, maybe five, six feet away from the boat, the underbelly and the topside color was a little different than what I was expecting,” Bogin said. “I had a lot of different emotions. I was excited. I was nervous because I was by myself.” Bogin, who has been fishing since he was five years old, described the encounter as a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Bogin, who routinely takes solo fishing trips, said he takes extra precautions for encounters with dangerous sea creatures and unpredictable weather events. “I used to sneak out of the house at 3 o’clock in the morning just because the tide was right…I’ve always been adventurous and I like sharks,” he said. “I progressively kind of get bored of things… It started with sunfish in a pond, then it was pike and pickerel, and I was like, ‘I’m over this, let me get into the saltwater thing….’ and then it turned into tuna and sharks. I’m running out of things to catch.
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