Jaw-dropping video shows boy hooking great white shark in South Florida

Jaw-dropping video is circulating online of a boy reeling in a monster great white shark while fishing in South Florida.

Jaw-dropping video shows boy catching great white shark in South Florida

The boy used a hook and line that is small enough to hold a small bait like tuna, but strong enough to pull a shark from the water .

Campbell Keenan captured the 11-foot-long trophy quarry on Tuesday while fishing with his mom during a trip to Fort Lauderdale.

“So, I was a little bit nervous — like, I don’t know if I want to go up against a shark,” said the 12-year-old boy in a video uploaded to YouTube.

“But it did make me really excited,” he said.

The anglers were about a mile offshore when the boy baited his hook with a tuna and waited for a bite. Shortly thereafter, the world’s largest predatory fish tugged on the preteen’s line.

“That is 100 percent a goddamn shark!” someone exclaimed in the clip, which shows the predator swimming next to the boat with a line trailing from its mouth.

Despite initially feeling nervous at the unexpected great bite, Keenan said he was really “excited” at the prospect of landing such a monster, which was estimated to weigh 700 pounds.

“They gave the rod to me and I just started crankin’,” said the pint-sized Captain Quint, who took 45 minutes to wrestle the beast in with the assistance of the crew.

“You guys got a giant great white!” one of the crew members yelled during the encounter. “This is like the most sought-after fish in the ocean.”

While the crew deemed the white shark a “no-brainer” for mounting on his wall, Keenan and his mother decided to have the predator tagged and released back into the sea so researchers could study its movements.

Boy captures great white shark in Florida

It’s currently illegal to keep great white sharks in US waters, where the “vulnerable” species is protected under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

Nonetheless, Keenan is far from the first to catch a predator unintentionally. Last summer, New York City shark captain Tom LaCognata hooked a great whites measuring 6 to 7 feet long while fishing off Long Island.

“We were able to get [them] close to the boat and just cut the line,” the inadvertent great-white hunter said. “You don’t want to get too close to their teeth.”

Watch the video below:

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