{"id":130326,"date":"2026-01-24T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130326\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:35:07","slug":"anglers-catch-13-foot-great-white-shark-along-florida-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130326\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglers catch 13-foot great white shark along Florida beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PENSACOLA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/2026\/01\/22\/great-white-shark-caught-off-pensacola-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/2026\/01\/22\/great-white-shark-caught-off-pensacola-beach\/\">WALA<\/a>\/Gray News) &#8211; A massive great white shark was caught along the shoreline in Pensacola Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The catch marked the fourth great white shark in four years reeled in by the <a href=\"https:\/\/coastal-worldwide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/coastal-worldwide.com\/\">Coastal Worldwide<\/a> fishing adventure crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dylan Wier and Blaine Kenny, with Coastal Worldwide, helped a group reel in an estimated 1,000-pound shark believed to be 12 to 13 feet long during a 48-hour beach fishing trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis trip specifically was a 48-hour shark fishing trip from the beach, so these guys were here from noon to noon the next day to noon the following day,\u201d Wier said. \u201cIn the first 12 hours or so of the trip, we hooked the first shark, which just happened to be a 12 to 13-foot great white shark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It took the crew just under an hour to reel in the apex predator. They photographed the shark and quickly released it back into the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI don\u2019t even think that they even registered kind of what happened until probably the next day, and even a couple of them were like, \u2018I still don\u2019t. We caught a great white.\u2019 It was pretty special,\u201d Kenny said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Anglers caught a large great white shark along the shores of Pensacola Beach, Florida.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WIJRT4JUNZG45BO4TNQF6XTNCI.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Anglers caught a large great white shark along the shores of Pensacola Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It was the fourth great white shark that Coastal Worldwide caught on Alabama and Florida beaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s a huge testimony to our Gulf waters. If these amazing creatures that travel thousands of miles all over the world choose our home to move through, it\u2019s obviously flourishing enough for them. So, that\u2019s pretty cool I think,\u201d Kenny said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last week, a massive tagged great white shark pinged off the coast of Dauphin Island. The Pensacola Beach shark did not have a tag, but Coastal Worldwide hopes to receive tagging equipment for future catches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WALA via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENSACOLA, Fla. 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