A sportfishing guide in Fiji has provided striking evidence of what can happen if a hooked game fish puts up too long of a fight.
“The emotional rollercoaster of chasing doggies,” Jana Crossingham stated via Instagram, referring to an image showing the severed head of a giant dogtooth tuna. “So close yet so far…”
Crossingham told FTW Outdoors that a shark claimed the body of the estimated 110-pound dogtooth tuna, leaving only the head for angler Brock Harmer.
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The image, showing an impressive set teeth and jaws, inspired one social-media follower to comment: “That would [still] make an epic skull mount.”
Many anglers around the world jokingly refer to a shark that chomps a hooked fish as the tax collector, or tax man.
Crossingham explained that sharks aren’t the only collectors and shared an image of the guide hoisting what was left of a dogtooth he recently landed.
In this instance the tax collectors were “a pack of pilot whales.”