'Dude, Hold My Beer': Insane Video of a Masshole Hooking a Great White on a Cape Cod Beach
Boston Globe - Matt Pieciak was playing a game of cornhole on Nauset Beach around noon on Sunday when there was a sudden pull on his fishing pole, which he had propped up in the sand near the shoreline. ...
After a brief tug of war, a pair of sharp fins breached the water, roughly 50 yards from the beach. Everyone nearby gasped.
It took only a few moments for Pieciak, who grew up visiting Cape Cod and has lived in Orleans for the past two years, to realize he had hooked a great white shark. ...
“I said ‘Dude, hold my beer,’ and grabbed the rod,” he said. “And it all kind of happened quickly from there.” ...
Pieciak said it’s likely that a large fish initially took his bait before the shark went after the fish. He estimated the shark was about 12 feet long.
“It was just the food chain: fish took bait, shark took fish,” he said.
You're catching a fish on Cape Cod and then a shark comes along, eats the fish and now you're reeling in a shark? Why does that sound familiar? Where have we heard that before? Oh right ...
Sometimes it's a scup, it gets eaten by a 4-foot baby thresher shark that devours your boat and that inspires you to become a marine biologist, sometimes it's a bass and it gets taken by a Great White and you go back to your cornhole and Naragannsetts. Different Massholes, similar stories, different outcomes.
But just be aware for the rest of the summer that his is what lurks just off shore all around the Cape. Ravenous, insatiable, miracles of evolution that swim, and eat, and make baby sharks. That's it. And once you step into the surf, they don't differentiate between some bluegill or tommycod wriggling on the end of a hook or some transplant to Orleans in board shorts stepping in to drain his breakfast beers. Every living thing is a meal to these leviathans. These giant death submersibles.
And on that note, kudos to the whole group here. "Dude, hold my beer" and the girls cheering while this massive carcharodon carcharias looks like it's about to be reeled into shore is some of the most Masshole stuff I've ever heard. You'd think they see a Great White every day. Which they probably do, giving the way the population of these murder whales has exploded in recent years. So let this be a lesson to you all. This is the way to react to an insane marine life encounter happening right in front of you. If you run into something like this, be like Matt Pieciak and his crew. Not like this bonehead:
