Finally gets the loop on the tail and together they drag it onto the beach. Cheer goes up from the crowd and up walks Beach Patrol. She says do you have a license? Yup. She says what're you going to do with it. Big Dude says "Let it go". BP says "You can let it go if you can paddle it back out where it got hooked". Big Dude says "well boy's looks like we're having shark for supper". It gets a bit gory here as they cut the tail off to let it bleed out. It was an 8 foot long Bull Shark. Huge to me. They load it into their pickup and take it back to their house which was 2 doors down from us. They estimated 350 - 400 pounds. One of the crowd turns out knows how to butcher a shark. Problem was their filet knife wouldn't touch it. Sounded like it was scraping concrete. They sent a guy to the bait shop to get a specific serrated knife. He gets back but they still couldn't get through the skin. Finally, a box cutter stabbed straight in was able to penetrate and start the process.
