12-Year-Old Catches Shark While Fishing At NJ Beach By Dane Enerio Representation. A shark. A 12-year-old boy was able to catch a shark while out fishing along the shores of North Wildwood in New Jersey over the weekend. "I just felt this big tug on the line and I just heard my drag go straight out into the ocean and then I was like, 'Oh I had something big on it,'" Cole Hagy told CBS 3 Eyewitness News. He initially thought the animal he was reeling in was a striper, but he said he realized it was a shark because he saw its two fins.