TAMPA, FL—Following a close encounter with a hammerhead shark while fishing, a Florida kayak angler says the next time he goes out, it will be in a significantly larger watercraft.

Frank Sargeant, fishing writer for the Tampa Tribune, reported that Michael Rementer hooked a big tarpon off Sanibel Island earlier this year. As he was fighting it, the kayaker spotted the mass of a huge 14-foot hammerhead shark protruding from beneath his craft. Hammerheads are a common sight in the tarpon-heavy waters off Florida’s west coast.

The angler says the huge shark bumped his kayak two or three times while the tarpon found refuge under his partner’s kayak.

The tarpon subsequently broke off and no one was hurt in the incident.

“It was the scariest day of my life,” Rementer says. “I won’t be near a hooked tarpon in the Gulf of Mexico in a kayak ever again.”

Sounds like good advice.