Holy Extreme Cobia Spearfishing!!!

After thousands of people saw our friend Joey Antonelli take a bite to the family jewels by a triggerfish (you can see that viral video here), he has had numerous redemption videos to make up for it.

But this has to be his best video yet.

Just wait until you see what happens at these two marks:

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Not only do these guy spear cobia off the backs of bull sharks, but they have some pretty close encounters with the sharks as well.

Now I don’t know about you, but when I am freediving, the two things that I want to see the least of are as follows:

  1. Bull Sharks
  2. Lots of blood in the water

Yet, this video is full of both.

Amazing job to all of the divers in this video (Matt Budd, Taylor Heflin, Scott Fricker, and Joey Antonelli)

You guys are officially nuts!

And stay tuned until the very end as they even shoot a flounder from the boat!

Enjoy.

Related Video: “This Is How You Spear Cobia Off The Backs Of Bull Sharks Like A Pro!” (watch it here now)

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Nurse sharks aren’t known for being the most aggressive sharks in the sea by any sense of the imagination…

Although don’t tell that to this angler who had a juvenile nurse shark latch on to his groin area (watch that video here)

But every once in a while these docile sharks get riled up and make a move on a diver or a spearfisherman.

In this case, it appeared as though a few scuba divers were doing their thing (blowing bubbles and taking footage of reefs), when this nurse shark decided it did not want to be on camera.

Fortunately, diver Dan Riley was able to get his camera back (hence, the footage you can see below) as the nurse shark ended up spitting out the GoPro when it realized it wasn’t a tasty meal.

Enjoy.

Related Video: “This Is What Happens When You Treat Nurse Sharks Like Dogs!” (you can watch it here)

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It’s not every day you see a shark attack on video that you can laugh about, but this one is pretty funny.

It appears that a juvenile nurse shark (which have been known to bite down and not let go) latched itself on to this guys upper leg, and it took two men to finally pry it off.

The guy is just lucky the shark wasn’t a few inches in the other direction… could have been much more painful (like this video where a triggerfish bites a diver right where it counts…)

Fortunately for the man that was “bit” by a nurse shark in the video below, he only suffered a nice welt and some slight humiliation of having his family and friends laugh at him.

What do want to make a bet that this shark went back to his shark friends and claimed he ate the guy’s leg…

Enjoy.

Important Note: Although the shark swam off safely, we do NOT advise throwing sharks (or any fish) like the guy in the video did.

Related Video: “This Is What Happens When A Triggerfish Gets The Ultimate Revenge On A Diver. OUCH!!!” (watch the video here)

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Fact: There is such thing as being “Salt Strong” out on the water, and then there is such thing as being SUPER Salt Strong…

As you will see below in the video, this extreme angler named Manuel from the documentary “The Sharkcallers Of Kontu” is SUPER Salt Strong.

Heck, I think he is actually off the charts Salt Strong…

Now if you ever thought catching a shark from the beach was hard work, try going out off the coast of New Guinea in a small outrigger canoe with nothing but some a paddle, some noisemakers, a bat, and a large dose of courage…

And if you ever wanted to know how to catch sharks by hand, this is how it is done.

Pretty nuts.

No wonder they call this guy the “Sharkcaller”.

Here is quick note about “The Sharkcallers of Kontu” if you have never seen it:

“The Sharkcallers of Kontu depicts the ancient tradition of shark calling in the village of Kontu, on the remote west coast of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea. There are only a few men remaining who use magic to call, trap and kill sharks by hand from their small outrigger canoes.”

Enjoy.

Warning: This may be graphic for small children, sharks, and vegans

Related Video: “This Is How You Land Slob 43-inch Snook From One Of The Snookiest Piers In Florida Like A BOSS!”

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Fish On.

Imagine enjoying a nice day on the beach with your family in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida when all of a sudden you see someone with a fishing pole reeling in a monster 13ft Hammerhead Shark right where you were just swimming…

As you can imagine, this scene created some chaos from onlookers at this Ft. Lauderdale beach, and I can only imagine that no one was going back in the water in that area anytime soon (even though it would have been just as safe as before, and that hammerhead certainly went as far away from that place as he could…)

Either way, it certainly made the day unforgettable for the beachgoers that got to see this!

It was a great job on the release (especially considering all of the mayhem behind them), and beach lovers shouldn’t be too worried about sharks like this coming up into the shallows where they are swimming.

For instance, this huge hammerhead shark was hooked hundreds of feet away from the beach while on the pier, and large hammerheads like this rarely come in the shallows of the beach.

Note: The anglers in the video are known as the Infinity Fishing Team.

Related Video: “Watch This 13ft Tiger Shark vs Scared Diver!”

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Enjoy and Fish On!

Our friends over at MorningTide Fishing never know what is going to happen when they do their extreme land-based fishing.

Some days it’s 6 foot swells bashing them on the rocks (like this wild video called “Only A Reel Fisherman Could Ever Understand This Crazy Video”)

Some days it’s having to dive into the water to free the fish and leader from underwater structure (like this must watch video called “Think The Wicked Tuna Guys Are Crazy? Then Watch This!”)

And some days its peacefully calm but you have reef sharks (aka the “Saltwater Tax Man”) coming up within feet of where you are standing to grab a free meal…

Check out the latest video from Morningtide Fishing below.

What a lucky fish!

Enjoy.

Morningtide Fishing = Salt Strong

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Two days ago, a really short (17-second) Great White Shark video went viral that showed a Great White ramming his head into a cage in South Africa at a wild speed.

It was lightning fast, and I can only imagine the guys in the cage were freaking out!

That video had pretty good footage (you can see it here), but it wasn’t really complete as it all happened so fast…

So when I saw this footage from one of the other guys in the same cage that day, I had to share because it raises an important question about diving with sharks…

If you watch the slow-motion clip of the shark coming into the cage you can see that they lured the shark right next to the cage and then swiped the chum fish out of the way at the last second (like a bullfighter would a bull).

Is this just having fun with sharks or is this taking it too far?

For instance, it could be argued that behavior like this is what causes sharks to attack humans… take away the tuna and the only thing the sharks sees in front of him while in attack mode is a human…

Leave us your thoughts.

 

Related Video: “This Great white Gets Aerial Photobombed By Another Great White On Film!” (watch it here)

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Call me old-fashioned, but the last place that I want to be when chumming for bull sharks is in the water!

I have spent a considerable amount of time under the surface, and only a few sharks really get my attention and cause me to slowly move closer to the boat… and one of them in the bull shark.

That being said, kudos to you brave crazy divers that not only chum for bull sharks while diving, but then get close enough to the bull shark where you can pluck a cobia off its back!

Nuts!

Speaking of nuts, one of the divers in this cobia spearfishing video (and the guy who edited the video – our friend Joey) is also the same diver in the Must-Watch Viral video called, “This Is What Happens When A Triggerfish Gets The Ultimate Revenge On A Diver. OUCH!”

Enjoy.

Related Video: “This Is How You Spearfish Cobia Off The Backs Of Bull Sharks!”

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Josh Jorgensen of BlacktipH is no stranger to being on Salt Strong.

With one of the most popular saltwater fishing YouTube channels in America, BlacktipH has had countless videos appear on Salt Strong.

But did you know that he also hosts a really popular blacktip shark fishing tournament every year?

It’s called “The Blacktip Challenge” and not only is it a fun shark tournament to be a part of, but it also helps shark researchers document blacktip shark migrations and movement as they tag many of the sharks, take some samples, etc.

The registration for next year’s Blacktip Challenge opened today and they only take 130 teams. Click here to learn more and check out the trailer below.

Related Video: “You’ve got to see these Blacktip Sharks destroying topwater plugs!”

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P.P.S. – Make sure to check out the highlights of last year’s Blacktip Shark tournament at the bottom of this page.

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