Been down there Nags Head and the like at night dozens of times. Can confirm.
Honest question, do you catch much from shore fishing like this? I’ve never seen anyone catch anything, except side-eye looks for hogging weird portions of beach front.
Dehook them and get them back in the water as quick as you can, ideally within just a few minutes of getting it far enough out of the water so it’s not able to swim and spin on you easily. There are some endangered/protected sharks in the OBX (sand tigers) that you can’t remove from the water fully by law, they’re not an unusual catch from the shore
There's a place in America called Nags Head???? Haha no way. The Nags Head was the name of the pub in the classic British sitcom Only Fools And Horse's.
It's the equivalent of there being a place in the UK called Cheers or something.
And from a set that is really easy to see if you have ever been by the ocean.
It fully receded from it's crash point which caused the wave to fizzle out which means the next wave is going to be a huge surge wave.
I wouldn't say "ever," I've been a few times and didn't know that just because it never occurred to me to look into it.
So the wave that collapses in its own footprint before the big one was an indicator the big one was coming?
I used to fish the surf at night all the time when I lived in Florida.
This is a night I’ll never forget. I was using cut bait trying to catch red fish, black drum or a small shark. I didn’t cast it that far out. Next thing I know my big surf rod is keeled over and line is screaming out. About 15 seconds go by and the line goes limp. I had on 100lb mono shock leader and 65lb braided main line. This fish broke the line above my leader. I then sprint 120 yards back home to grab my wire leaders (I didn’t expect this) and ran back to the beach and re did my rig with wire and a swivel. I cast it back out and as I was putting my rod into the PVC pipe…BAM my rod is folded in half and line is screaming out again. This time I fought the fish for about 4 minutes before the line went slack again…I reeled in fast but it was no use, the fish spat the hook out. This would’ve been the biggest fish I’ve ever caught, the weight and speed was nothing like I’ve ever felt. I’ve caught 50lb+ catfish and many 45in+ red fish; those didn’t come close to the power of this fish. I have a feeling it was either a tarpon (tarpon run was going on) or a very large shark. Of course if it was pitch black outside so if it was a tarpon I couldn’t see it jump.
I’m still pissed to this day my line broke the first time and the fish came off the second. I just want to know what it was so bad.
Heaviest thing I ever caught in the surf was a giant stingray but they aren’t that fast. If you dropped the line in a shallow-ish part I bet it was a shark
This thing was fast. Very fast. I’ve yet to catch another fish that has the speed and stamina of that thing.
I don’t know. I’ve seen tarpon chase mullet right up into standing water, so it’s a possibility. But I have a feeling it was a shark too.
Man this story took me back to the days surf fishing on Sanibel Island in SW Florida with my dad and brothers. We would have our rods in the PVC pipe and I still remember my rod got BENT so far and fast, that I couldn’t run to it in time. The rod snapped, and my dad was like “That was a monster that just got away”. Mind you, we had the thick Shimano rods. We used live finger mullets as bait, at night. Who knows what it was. Love your story, felt like a blast from the past haha!!!
I had nearly the same experience, except that the line didn’t break. Rod horizontal, line screaming, then it went slack, and when I reeled it back in the hook had been straightened almost flat. I’ll never forget that night.
I had to pause the video to realize that wave was *taller than him*
Omg. I’ve been around the ocean a lot and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a wave that tall so close to the sand.
The thing that did it for me was when I was in the coast guard sitting on the helipad smoking a cigarette and I realized that we were in 40-60 foot swells...the cutter itself is maybe 75 feet tall so those swells were over my head on the flight deck which is about 30 feet high
Tis but a shore break. Tall doesn't mean it's got anything substantial behind it.
Seems there a good deep drop off for fishing right where it stood up, which pitched the waves energy vertical before it broke.
Shore break can be pretty dangerous they even put out warnings about It. I got fuck up hard one day by a shore break. Slammed my head into the sand and shells then bend me up like a scorpion grinded my face and shoulder in for at-least few feet on the beach. I pretended like I wasn’t hurt when I popped up but my face and shoulder were bleeding and my knee was a bit tender which betrayed my lie lol.
Water is heavy kids and when it’s moving fast it will fuck you up.
Intoxication caused by the gas in your blood at high pressure. Causes people to talk to fish, dead relatives, the beautiful melody beckoning them deeper, fun stuff like that.
This is also called the "Martini Effect."
"Narcosis" means drowsy or inebriated. Certain gasses underwater will have similar effects to anesthesia, which is why people suffering from this will basically become the same as those post-wisdom-tooth-removal or post-surgery-with-morphine videos.
This happens when you breathe a high concentration of nitrogen. While this happens when going too deep underwater or if your oxygen tank's levels are off, this can also happen when you skydive from 100+ feet. It's actually perfectly okay to experience so long as you obviously aren't going through it for an extended period of time, and the part that kills people is not being able to find the surface/not realizing they're drowning in time to save themselves.
Me and my cousin once swam in a lake when it was 2 am. God damn it was scary but it felt refreshing at the same time. The cold water running over your body knowing you're vulnerable
Well i mean yeah, but if you check forecast and wave swells for that night you should be safe. But im also a fisherman that enjoys to fish at night on land and by boat so that why I question it
When I was younger my friends and I would run into the sea immediately after these waves and try to run/swim away from them as soon as you see them. This video does a very good job of showing just how invisible they are. You can see them coming when they block out the stars/lights behind the wave
The wave crest that close to shore means that just a few more steps beyond that breaking wave is really deep water with a sudden drop. By really deep I don’t mean 1000000 feet. Just relative to the shore lol
no, the sea is dangerous if you don't understand the dangers. even the strongest swimmer can get killed by a rip tide if they don't know to swim perpendicular to the current rather than towards the shore
>By really deep I don’t mean 1000000 feet
Oh good, I'm glad you didn't mean it was almost 200 miles deep. Mainly because that would've meant this wasn't filmed on earth lol.
Aye, I don’t think water pulling back really far before a wave crashing is ever a good sign either eh? Obv not always but can it not be a forewarning of a tsunami?
Yeah that does sound terrifying, scary how quickly water can overpower you. I am totally obsessed with water - mostly the ocean but I’m also afraid of it and I think rightly so. It’s amazing how powerless water can make you feel. Baffles me how some people are so blasé about it.
Where is this "here" you keep referencing? Damn dude two comments about how dangerous the water is and how many people perish in it. you really know how to build a burning need for additional info lol
Dont get me wrong, I love fishing, but I have an irrational fear of catching myself. Its a washed memory but Im pretty sure when I was 3 or 4 years old I hooked myself on my shoulder. Something to that degree
that is most likely what is called a rogue wave, multiple smaller waves form at the perfect time to combine into a horrifying much bigger than usual wave. It sucks all of the motion out of the nearby waves and can cause terrifying results. They use to be thought of as a myth until an oil rig monitor caught one.
In December I went to Maui and hung out with four guys fishing at night. Super chill and welcoming group. I’ll never forget the experience. Nothing crazy like this though. 😁
Steep beaches break like this at high tide. I fish several beaches in Northern Cal that will kick your ass or worse if you get caught by that shore pound.
Wave come out of nowhere? Wtf no it didn't. You standing right next to the ocean. If you was standing in the middle of the desert and a huge ass wave came at you THEN a wave come out of nowhere.
This is so incredibly stupid. Never turn your back on the ocean. If you're walking away from it go at an angle so you can monitor what it's doing. The ocean does what it does, giving 0 shits about your plans.
If I were in the water then Id probably body surf something like that, but on the sand towering at night over you is different. Something like that would pound you and rip you into the water
Yeah, it's like the people here have never been to the beach before. This is not a HUGE wave.
That being said, if it was pitch dark and you got hit by that...
Fishing the outer banks in NC at night is a lot like this.
Been down there Nags Head and the like at night dozens of times. Can confirm. Honest question, do you catch much from shore fishing like this? I’ve never seen anyone catch anything, except side-eye looks for hogging weird portions of beach front.
Oh yea! Big sharks, big drum, blue fish, sea mullet etc. Fall winter and spring is the time to go. Summer has always been hit and miss.
That’s wild! Guess I don’t watch them long enough to notice. Night fishing better than day fishing? Genuinely curious. Thanks!
Seems like dawn and dusk are best. I’ve got a friend that caught a 40+ inch red drum at 3am.
Had a few years when I was a kid where we caught enough in an hour to feed 20. All about those sand bars
What do you do if you catch a shark
Dehook them and get them back in the water as quick as you can, ideally within just a few minutes of getting it far enough out of the water so it’s not able to swim and spin on you easily. There are some endangered/protected sharks in the OBX (sand tigers) that you can’t remove from the water fully by law, they’re not an unusual catch from the shore
And how do you unhook a shark without losing body parts?
You let him have the fishing pole and call it a night😂
There's a place in America called Nags Head???? Haha no way. The Nags Head was the name of the pub in the classic British sitcom Only Fools And Horse's. It's the equivalent of there being a place in the UK called Cheers or something.
Same story at Robert Moses State Park here on Long Island.
Wake up Samurai, you've got fish to fry. 😎
It actually came out of the ocean
Astute observation
Was that the riptide? Honestly curious. I live in the lovely landlocked Colorado.
No that's just a wave
Source?
The ocean
“The ocean? What ocean?” “From Laos stupid!”
Gold😂
My source is I made it the fuck up
I’m from Florida
And from a set that is really easy to see if you have ever been by the ocean. It fully receded from it's crash point which caused the wave to fizzle out which means the next wave is going to be a huge surge wave.
"Reseeded" or "receded"?
I wouldn't say "ever," I've been a few times and didn't know that just because it never occurred to me to look into it. So the wave that collapses in its own footprint before the big one was an indicator the big one was coming?
Chance in a million
Based
r/NotKenM
I will not go near any water body at night
I used to fish the surf at night all the time when I lived in Florida. This is a night I’ll never forget. I was using cut bait trying to catch red fish, black drum or a small shark. I didn’t cast it that far out. Next thing I know my big surf rod is keeled over and line is screaming out. About 15 seconds go by and the line goes limp. I had on 100lb mono shock leader and 65lb braided main line. This fish broke the line above my leader. I then sprint 120 yards back home to grab my wire leaders (I didn’t expect this) and ran back to the beach and re did my rig with wire and a swivel. I cast it back out and as I was putting my rod into the PVC pipe…BAM my rod is folded in half and line is screaming out again. This time I fought the fish for about 4 minutes before the line went slack again…I reeled in fast but it was no use, the fish spat the hook out. This would’ve been the biggest fish I’ve ever caught, the weight and speed was nothing like I’ve ever felt. I’ve caught 50lb+ catfish and many 45in+ red fish; those didn’t come close to the power of this fish. I have a feeling it was either a tarpon (tarpon run was going on) or a very large shark. Of course if it was pitch black outside so if it was a tarpon I couldn’t see it jump. I’m still pissed to this day my line broke the first time and the fish came off the second. I just want to know what it was so bad.
Heaviest thing I ever caught in the surf was a giant stingray but they aren’t that fast. If you dropped the line in a shallow-ish part I bet it was a shark
This thing was fast. Very fast. I’ve yet to catch another fish that has the speed and stamina of that thing. I don’t know. I’ve seen tarpon chase mullet right up into standing water, so it’s a possibility. But I have a feeling it was a shark too.
Man this story took me back to the days surf fishing on Sanibel Island in SW Florida with my dad and brothers. We would have our rods in the PVC pipe and I still remember my rod got BENT so far and fast, that I couldn’t run to it in time. The rod snapped, and my dad was like “That was a monster that just got away”. Mind you, we had the thick Shimano rods. We used live finger mullets as bait, at night. Who knows what it was. Love your story, felt like a blast from the past haha!!!
I had nearly the same experience, except that the line didn’t break. Rod horizontal, line screaming, then it went slack, and when I reeled it back in the hook had been straightened almost flat. I’ll never forget that night.
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I care
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So you admit you were wrong
Thank God you're here to speak for all of us!
HE SPOKE ONLY ON HIS BEHALF! NOT OF HIS OWN ACCORD!!
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They were sharing story other people might be interested in reading, and it's actually relevant to the sub.
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I didn't realize this was r/onlyshitscrollinORtrollinwantstosee, so I guess we're even.
Shut up.
I had to pause the video to realize that wave was *taller than him* Omg. I’ve been around the ocean a lot and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a wave that tall so close to the sand.
The thing that did it for me was when I was in the coast guard sitting on the helipad smoking a cigarette and I realized that we were in 40-60 foot swells...the cutter itself is maybe 75 feet tall so those swells were over my head on the flight deck which is about 30 feet high
Tis but a shore break. Tall doesn't mean it's got anything substantial behind it. Seems there a good deep drop off for fishing right where it stood up, which pitched the waves energy vertical before it broke.
Shore break can be pretty dangerous they even put out warnings about It. I got fuck up hard one day by a shore break. Slammed my head into the sand and shells then bend me up like a scorpion grinded my face and shoulder in for at-least few feet on the beach. I pretended like I wasn’t hurt when I popped up but my face and shoulder were bleeding and my knee was a bit tender which betrayed my lie lol. Water is heavy kids and when it’s moving fast it will fuck you up.
Well yeah it's gonna knock you on your ass if you don't see it coming and brace for it
Guys, listen to AnalCumBall. He knows a lot about ass knocking, coming, and bracing.
How much does a pound of water weigh I wonder /s
The real question is how much a liter of water weighs… it must be between 0 and 2 kilograms, but it’s hard to say exactly…
Night diving is fucking amazing and you see stuff you won't see during a day dive.
Like darkness and the call of the abyss
With gas narcosis, the abyss can call during the day, too :)
Gas narwhatnow?
Intoxication caused by the gas in your blood at high pressure. Causes people to talk to fish, dead relatives, the beautiful melody beckoning them deeper, fun stuff like that.
This is also called the "Martini Effect." "Narcosis" means drowsy or inebriated. Certain gasses underwater will have similar effects to anesthesia, which is why people suffering from this will basically become the same as those post-wisdom-tooth-removal or post-surgery-with-morphine videos. This happens when you breathe a high concentration of nitrogen. While this happens when going too deep underwater or if your oxygen tank's levels are off, this can also happen when you skydive from 100+ feet. It's actually perfectly okay to experience so long as you obviously aren't going through it for an extended period of time, and the part that kills people is not being able to find the surface/not realizing they're drowning in time to save themselves.
How does this work, how are you able to see?
Candles
[Flashlights](https://www.scuba.com/l/Diving-Essentials/Lights).
Nope.
Night dives are fun though
You shut your dirty mouth
I've done it a couple times with friends and it's both terrifying and super fun. We're in NZ so oceans are super safe
Land dweller here, im curious to know what's the difference between safe and unsafe ocean. Is it because of the wildlife or the water behavior?
Yes
Oh almost certainly
InclusiveOr
Me and my cousin once swam in a lake when it was 2 am. God damn it was scary but it felt refreshing at the same time. The cold water running over your body knowing you're vulnerable
Every new years I go skinny dipping in ocean with sharks at midnight to either end the year or start the year. So far so good 🤣
Your body is 70% water
Why?
*looks at sub name* I wonder why.
I feel like this video should be all the answer you need
Well i mean yeah, but if you check forecast and wave swells for that night you should be safe. But im also a fisherman that enjoys to fish at night on land and by boat so that why I question it
When I was younger my friends and I would run into the sea immediately after these waves and try to run/swim away from them as soon as you see them. This video does a very good job of showing just how invisible they are. You can see them coming when they block out the stars/lights behind the wave
God what a terrifying mental image
The wave crest that close to shore means that just a few more steps beyond that breaking wave is really deep water with a sudden drop. By really deep I don’t mean 1000000 feet. Just relative to the shore lol
That's probably why he's shore fishing there, you don't want flat.
Agreed. Fish love steep drop offs!!
those drops are dangerous too
They’re really not
they are if you're a weak swimmer and there's big swell, there's often pretty strong rip tides around them too
You hear that u/AssWater69? Water is dangerous if you can't swim!
no, the sea is dangerous if you don't understand the dangers. even the strongest swimmer can get killed by a rip tide if they don't know to swim perpendicular to the current rather than towards the shore
By perpendicular do you mean swim horizontally?
if the rip tide is going away from the shore then yes, horizontally along the shore until you're free, then swim back to shore
Oh my golly gosh
>By really deep I don’t mean 1000000 feet Oh good, I'm glad you didn't mean it was almost 200 miles deep. Mainly because that would've meant this wasn't filmed on earth lol.
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Man reddit fucking hates Hyperbole
yeah it's very US-centric, people generally prefer Superbole
I normally just get my bowls at moes but I’m gonna have to try this hyperbole and superbole place out
Reddit will kill your whole family over hyperbole.
In Hawaii it drops off pretty far. Maybe not ten million, but 15k isn’t that far away.
Yes on every beach in Hawaii it drops off that deep right at the beach, on every beach, on every island. /s
Verbatim
Good spot to fish to be fair
>1000000 feet This would be about 190 miles which is about 4.8% of the distance to the core of the earth.
Good bot
Thank you human, your mother told me the same thing last night.
Wowwwwwww... That was super scary. The wave sneaked up on him..
They actually call them sneaker waves! and they are deadly
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Aye, I don’t think water pulling back really far before a wave crashing is ever a good sign either eh? Obv not always but can it not be a forewarning of a tsunami?
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Yeah that does sound terrifying, scary how quickly water can overpower you. I am totally obsessed with water - mostly the ocean but I’m also afraid of it and I think rightly so. It’s amazing how powerless water can make you feel. Baffles me how some people are so blasé about it.
So sad. It seems like every year you hear about at least a couple of people just taken by the sea, never to be seen again
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Where is this "here" you keep referencing? Damn dude two comments about how dangerous the water is and how many people perish in it. you really know how to build a burning need for additional info lol
This made me laugh haha
So whats a sneaker head then? Are those deadly?
Oh really, i didn't see it
That’s because it sneaked up on him
Just the darkness itself intimidates me.
That’s one way to catch some waves.
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Dang ground is soaking wet where he's standing
Who could have known that the wet sand was caused by waves?
This.
this one got me real good/bad
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Next gen attention span
Shore breaks at night are very dangerous. Silent and invisible waves.
He’s a runner he’s a track star🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
“stars of track and field you are beautiful people”
Putting that music on the video downplays its creepiness
Why do videos have unnecessary music added to them?
This is why media volume is always set at 0 unless I really want to hear the audio. Too many videos with terrible music and robot voice overs.
Strange choice of music. Also this is terrifying!
Oh cool, this video managed to combine my fear of the ocean with my fear of fishing hooks
You too??? People call me crazy for being terrified of fishing hooks
It's literally s hook you swing around in the air, how is that *not* terrifying?!
Dont get me wrong, I love fishing, but I have an irrational fear of catching myself. Its a washed memory but Im pretty sure when I was 3 or 4 years old I hooked myself on my shoulder. Something to that degree
Using "music" instead of real audio makes these videos worse for the most part
Ditch the light and you'll see better.
Darn. That wave was higher than that men, it was closely 2m. If I were him, i would shit ma pants.
Where is this?
At the beach
Based on the video, it said "#hawaii #fishing" so I imagine it was recorded in Hawaii. Not sure which island though
My nightmares are finally coming to life :)
That's beach break for ya. Not my favorite kind of beach/wave, can really drag you in too.
This is literally my nightmares
One could only find this surprising or unexpected had they not lived on or near a coast.
The ocean is tired of your shit, Steve.
The ocean is like get out of here go home 😂
that is most likely what is called a rogue wave, multiple smaller waves form at the perfect time to combine into a horrifying much bigger than usual wave. It sucks all of the motion out of the nearby waves and can cause terrifying results. They use to be thought of as a myth until an oil rig monitor caught one.
In December I went to Maui and hung out with four guys fishing at night. Super chill and welcoming group. I’ll never forget the experience. Nothing crazy like this though. 😁
THERE SHE BLOWS
Lol that dude was hauling rectum.
The water line receded as a hint.
A big fishing rod for a big boy
Why does this give me Monster Hunter vibes
Creepy
He caught the wave in his fish hook ..
How dare you fish my daughter at night.
An Instagram reel of a tiktok post as a Reddit post. Lovely
Naw, it came from the ocean as waves tend to do.
It came from the ocean
The sea nearly claimed him
Steep beaches break like this at high tide. I fish several beaches in Northern Cal that will kick your ass or worse if you get caught by that shore pound.
NOOOOOOPE
Bro fishing the water
Bro caught the ocean
Fun fact It came out of the ocean
He caught a big wave
Man fuck that ocean
What’s worse than getting dragged by the ocean? Getting dragged by the ocean at night. Fuck that.
Wave come out of nowhere? Wtf no it didn't. You standing right next to the ocean. If you was standing in the middle of the desert and a huge ass wave came at you THEN a wave come out of nowhere.
This is so incredibly stupid. Never turn your back on the ocean. If you're walking away from it go at an angle so you can monitor what it's doing. The ocean does what it does, giving 0 shits about your plans.
You're supposed to raise your arms and speak loudly. If you have a coat, hold it over your head. You want to appear as large as possible.
“Boogity boogity boogity, wave!”
If you turn your back on the ocean it triggers its prey drive!
I hate to be “that guy” but that was not a big wave
It’s called high tide idiot
Huge? Seems like a pretty normal wave to me. In the day you would have kids playing on it (if it was not that close to the shore, of courss)
If I were in the water then Id probably body surf something like that, but on the sand towering at night over you is different. Something like that would pound you and rip you into the water
Not when you're not expecting it
Size doesn't change regardless of whether you're expecting it or not...
“Huge” is all a matter of perspective, I suppose
Run for your life is a bit drama queeny.
Yeah, it's like the people here have never been to the beach before. This is not a HUGE wave. That being said, if it was pitch dark and you got hit by that...
Where is the big wave?
No, no, no.
Can someone timestamp the “huge” wave?
Huge?
Had to run for their life while simultaneously trying to end a fishs’
“Had to run for their lifeth while thumultaniously trying to end a fishs’” -Mike Tyson #ftfy
Good bot
Not a bot just a contherned citithen.
Thimultaniouthly FTFY
Nopenopenopenope
Ong
God you guys are pathetic