See what happened below the boat as Moose Adventures captured a 45kg kingfish fight, a mako encounter, and a great white shark on CHASING CanFish Fishing CamX.
What an Underwater Fishing Camera Captured: Kingfish, Mako, and a Great White Below the Boat
Most anglers remember what happened above the water.
The rod loaded up. The drag screamed. A fish ran hard. Something cut the line.
But offshore fishing often hides the most dramatic part of the story below the boat.
During an offshore fishing trip near New Zealand’s Three Kings Islands, fishing creator Moose Adventures captured a series of rare real-world underwater moments.
This footage comes from a video published by Moose Adventures:
A 45 kg / 100 lb yellowtail kingfish was fighting hard underwater.
A mako shark charged into the frame at high speed.
Even more unexpectedly, a great white shark, described by the creator as roughly 3.5 meters long, approached and came straight toward the camera.
These moments were recorded with CHASING CanFish Fishing CamX.
Using the CHASING CanFish Fishing CamX, the trip captured a 45 kg / 100 lb yellowtail kingfish, the underwater fight of powerful kingfish, a great white shark described by the creator as roughly 3.5 meters long biting at the camera, and a mako shark charging in at high speed.
The footage was featured in the creator’s video: “Hooked a GREAT WHITE SHARK & 45kg Kingfish (UNDERWATER FOOTAGE - Never Seen Before).”
These are not controlled aquarium scenes. They are real encounters recorded during real offshore fishing.
And they reveal something anglers rarely get to see: what is actually happening beneath the boat while everyone above the surface is focused on the rod.
The Fight Looks Different Underwater
A 45 kg kingfish is already impressive from the deck. But the underwater perspective tells a different story.
Above the surface, the angler experiences the fight through pressure: the bend in the rod, drag leaving the reel, sudden changes in direction, and heavy runs toward structure.
Underwater, those forces become visible. You begin to see how a large kingfish changes direction, how it uses its body through the water, and how much power is involved in a fight that may feel almost impossible from above.
As the creator put it: “Really cool to see how the kings fight underwater.”
That simple observation captures the value of the footage. The angler already knew the fish was strong. The camera showed how that strength looked beneath the surface.
For fishing content, that distinction matters. A traditional camera can document the angler fighting the fish. An underwater fishing camera can document part of the fight itself.
When the Camera Becomes Part of the Encounter
The most unexpected moment came when a large shark entered the scene.
According to Moose Adventures’ description of the trip, the footage includes a roughly 3.5-meter great white shark interacting with and biting at the camera.
That immediately changes the role of the camera. It is no longer simply recording a distant animal passing through the frame. The camera itself becomes part of the encounter.
For viewers, this creates a perspective that would be almost impossible to understand from the deck alone.
A crew may know that sharks are present. They may see a fin. They may lose a fish. They may feel a sudden change in tension. But underwater footage can reveal the moment a large predator actually approaches, investigates, or attacks an object in its environment.
That is what makes this kind of footage so powerful. It does not simply tell viewers, “There was a shark down there.” It shows that the underwater environment around an active fishing boat can be far more dynamic than the surface suggests.
A Mako at Speed Is a Different Kind of Story
The same trip also captured a mako shark coming in fast.
Speed is difficult to appreciate through a still image. It becomes much more obvious in underwater video.
A predator can appear from outside the frame, close distance in seconds, and disappear almost as quickly.
For anglers, that matters because many offshore events happen too fast to interpret in real time. A sudden cut-off might leave several possibilities: the line touched structure, the fish changed direction, another predator entered the fight, or a shark attacked the hooked fish or terminal tackle.
From the boat, the result may be obvious while the cause remains uncertain.
Underwater footage does not solve every mystery. But it can preserve the few seconds that explain what the angler never saw.
Why Offshore Fishing Is Full of Invisible Variables
From the surface, offshore fishing can appear straightforward: find the area, deploy the lure or bait, hook the fish, and fight it to the boat.
But below the surface, many other interactions may be happening at the same time.
A hooked fish may be changing depth, circling beneath the boat, moving toward structure, followed by another predator, approached by sharks, or reacting to the camera itself.
The angler experiences only part of that story through the line.
This is one reason underwater fishing footage can be so valuable. It creates a record of events that would otherwise disappear.
A lost fish is not always just a lost fish. A sudden run is not always random. A cut-off is not always easy to explain. And a powerful fight may look completely different once you see the fish moving underwater.
Where CHASING CanFish Fishing CamX Fits
The CHASING CanFish Fishing CamX is designed to record the underwater side of fishing.
It is not a live-view system for watching the screen during the fight. Instead, the CHASING CanFish Fishing CamX captures footage that anglers and creators can review afterward.
That distinction is especially important in offshore fishing, where encounters can develop quickly and unpredictably.
The CHASING CanFish Fishing CamX combines 1080P HD recording, a 136° ultra-wide field of view, a Sony STARVIS sensor, an F/2.0 aperture, a stabilizing fin design, and waterproof performance rated to 200 m / 656 ft.
For a saltwater underwater camera, those capabilities matter because the subject is rarely stationary. Fish approach from different directions. The camera moves with the fishing setup. Water conditions change. The most important interaction may happen at the edge of the frame and last only seconds.
But in the Moose Adventures footage, the strongest product story is not the specification sheet. It is the fact that the CHASING CanFish Fishing CamX was present when something extraordinary happened.
A kingfish fight. A large shark encounter. A mako charging through the scene.
Moments that could easily have remained invisible were recorded.
The Best Fishing Stories Are Not Always the Ones Anglers Can See
Fishing videos traditionally focus on the human side of the experience: the strike, the fight, the reaction, and the landing.
Those moments will always matter. But this trip shows how much of the story can happen somewhere else: below the boat, out of sight.
A 45 kg kingfish is not simply pulling line from a reel. It is fighting through the water.
A sudden cut-off may have a predator behind it. A shark may be closer than anyone on deck realizes.
And sometimes, the most remarkable encounter of the trip is not the fish eventually held for a photograph. It is the moment a camera records something no one above the surface could fully see.
That is what an underwater fishing camera can add to offshore fishing: not just another angle, but another part of the story.
Explore more of the underwater side of fishing with the CHASING CanFish Fishing CamX.
