EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — "We're going to need a bigger boat."
That's what Lars White told his 6-year-old son, Blake, after the boy hooked a great white shark while fishing Saturday off Cape Cod.
The Houston resident told the Cape Cod Times that the 10- to 12-foot-long shark swam into the hook and spent an hour and a half trying to free itself. When the shark finally surfaced, White's wife took some photos and then the family cut the fishing line to free it.
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State shark scientist Gregory Skomal confirmed Blake had caught a great white.
Great white sharks have been spotted in increasing numbers in recent years around Cape Cod.
Blake says he wants to go fishing again and "catch something a little bit smaller."