Video: Great White Takes Bite Out of Kayak Angler’s Catch

Earlier this month, a fisherman plying the waters off Dana Point, California, had a two-for-one experience when the shark on the end of his line became lunch for a much larger shark—and the angler captured the entire encounter on video.

Kayak angler Bill Morales told station KTLA that on the afternoon of April 20, 2016, he was fishing and had just hooked a small leopard shark when something latched onto his catch and jerked him backwards. When Morales realized that he was suddenly toe-to-toe with a great white shark, he reached for his video camera. “I had the camera in one hand, and I had the shark in the other hand. …I had to move my arm back and forth like a piston so that it wouldn’t just pull me over,” he said.

Morales’s girlfriend also filmed the encounter from another kayak about 50 feet away. Though Morales thinks that the great white was about 8 to 10 feet long, he said he never feared it.