Seeing the advertisements for shark week reminded me of the time I lived in Cape Coral, FL and I was fishing snook under a bridge. To catch the snook I would wade out into the river and cast my lure under the bridge at night. This was a popular way to fish snook at that time. There were pilings out there and we knew we couldn't go any farther than those pilings or it would be too deep. There was generally several of us lined up but that night I was alone.
The lights on the bridge left a line in the water and the snook would bite just as my lure came out of the dark into that light line. There were some old pilings there and I was up to my neck in the water casting with my arms above my head. I felt a bump a couple times and figured it was tarpon rubbing up against me. A 6" Rebel silver minnow was the bait of choice.
Then this huge head came up to bump me in the chest and it was this huge hammerhead shark up close not 12" from my face. It then just turned aside and swam off and I got out of the water quick but not frantic. I could not have reached my arms wide enough to touch each of its eyes, it was huge but fortunately not hungry. . My fishing was over for that night besides I needed to change my shorts. I never went back to fish there again after that.
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