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One angler, one small yellow boat, and open water between him and the nearest shark.

Graeme Pullen doesn’t need a crew. The veteran angler behind the UK-based channel TA Fishing, which he runs with his son Mike, heads out alone into deep water aboard a tiny open boat for a 34-minute documentary built around a single goal: hook and fight a shark by himself, with no one else on board to help him land it. The film was released as a guest feature during a “takeover week” on Mike’s channel, TA Outdoors.

• Graeme Pullen, co-creator of TA Fishing, undertakes a completely unassisted solo offshore fishing trip in his small yellow open boat.
• The expedition’s stated goal is to catch multiple saltwater species for food and fresh bait before attempting to hook and fight a shark entirely alone.
• The 34-minute film was produced as a guest documentary for TA Outdoors’ takeover week, a channel run by Pullen’s son Mike.

Working the Boat Alone

There’s no first mate handling the tackle, no second pair of hands on the throttle if things go wrong. Pullen is running the boat, reading the water for offshore marks, and managing heavy gear by himself, which is the whole point of the exercise — it’s a stress test of small-boat sea angling technique when everything falls on one person. That includes the unglamorous parts: navigating out to deep water, locating productive ground, and getting bait rigs down without a deckhand to steady the boat.

The approach mirrors the kind of stripped-down, self-reliant angling covered elsewhere on the water, from bare-handed shark fishing to open-ocean catch-and-cook expeditions where the angler is entirely on their own for supplies. Pullen’s version keeps the tackle conventional but strips away every other safety net.

Catching for Food and Bait First

Before Pullen ever targets a shark, he has to catch smaller saltwater species — fish destined for two purposes, feeding himself and rigging fresh bait for the main event. That two-track approach is standard practice in shark fishing: fresh-caught bait outperforms anything bought beforehand, and locating those baitfish is often the harder half of the day. The documentary tracks that grind before it ever gets to the marquee fight.

The Shark Fight From an Open Boat

The centerpiece of the film is the moment Pullen hooks a shark and has to fight it alone from inside a small open craft, with nowhere to brace and no one to pass him a gaff or a rod. Fighting a shark solo from a tiny boat means every pull, every run, and every moment of slack has to be managed single-handedly — rod pressure, boat position, and his own footing all at once.

This is the real old man and the sea.

That line, used to introduce the film, captures the stakes plainly: one angler, one boat, and a fish that outweighs the odds stacked in his favor. The documentary lingers on that imbalance rather than cutting away from it, showing the physical toll of holding a rod against a shark’s runs without backup.

A Guest Feature Built for Takeover Week

Pullen made the film specifically for his son Mike’s channel, TA Outdoors, as part of a takeover week where guest anglers hand over full-length documentaries rather than short clips. That format gave Pullen room to let the trip play out at its own pace — the setup, the bait-fishing grind, and the shark battle all captured in one continuous 34-minute account rather than trimmed into highlights.

For anglers who follow TA Fishing, the appeal is the same as it’s always been on that channel: real time on the water, real tackle problems, and a shark fight that isn’t staged for a camera crew standing just out of frame. Pullen’s next trip, whenever it lands on TA Fishing or another TA Outdoors takeover, will get judged against this one — solo, small boat, one shark, no shortcuts.