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English: Title: Frank Mundus, shark hunting, Montauk Point, [Long Island] Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: 28 June 1978. Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-02555 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Frank Mundus (October 21, 1925 – September 10, 2008) was a fisherman and charter captain based in Montauk, New York who is said to be the inspiration for the character Quint in the book and movie Jaws. [1] [2] He started out as a shark hunter but later became a shark
It tells the story of a large great white shark that preys upon a small Long Island resort town and the three men who attempt to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he read about the exploits of Frank Mundus, a shark fisherman from Montauk, New York, in 1964. Doubleday commissioned Benchley to write the ...
In 1964, he read an item in a newspaper about a charter fisherman, Frank Mundus, who harpooned an estimated 4,500-pound great white shark off Long Island, and the idea for the book's plot was born ...
The shark was 6 feet long and, understandably, little Michalove was terrified. ... For a man whose icon is Frank Mundus, the first to catch a white shark in the Atlantic and the inspiration for ...
The craze for shark fishing off Montauk was encouraged in the 1970s by local boat operator Frank Mundus who often was reported in stories as the source for the character Quint in the movie Jaws. [8] Mundus caught a 4,500-pound (2,041 kg) great white shark by harpoon and a 3,427-pound (1,554 kg) great white shark by rod and reel.
A Bay Area photographer captures juvenile white sharks "smiling" in the warm waters of Monterey Bay.
Frank Mundus has called thresher sharks "exceedingly stubborn" and "pound for pound, a harder fish to whip" than the mako. [10] Fishing for the common thresher is similar to that for the mako; the recommended equipment is a 24 kg (53 lb) rod and a big-game reel holding at least 365 m (400 yd) of 24 kg (53 lb) line.