A MAN is back in the water after being bitten by a shark during a family fishing trip.
Brett Reeder severely injured his pinkie while attempting to release a lemon shark he accidentally reeled in on July 17.
He could be seen in a now-deleted TikTok leaning over the edge of a boat in a scuffle with the sea creature in shallow water.
“It was hooked in the gills and I was trying to get the hook out when the shark took a shark turn,” said Reeder.
The shark suddenly chomped on Reeder’s left pinkie as his family watched in shock.
“I lost my g*****n pinkie!” he shouted in the video.
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Moments later, the six-foot shark swam away as Reeder immediately sought medical attention.
“We immediately pulled anchor and Mandy cut the line as Courtnee and Bekah applied a tourniquet to my arm under the elbow,” Reeder said.
He was airlifted to Jackson South Hospital in Florida and doctors were able to re-attach his pinkie with more than 100 stitches, a pin and a cast.
“They’ve got me in a hard cast on the bottom because all four tendons were cut on top,” he said.
“They wanted my hand to be propped up like this for about six weeks for the tendon to heal perfectly.”
Reeder’s wife, Mandy, continues to post TikToks of her husband fishing, but now he sports a bandage on his left hand and wields a knife in his other.
“I learned my lesson,” Reeder said while smiling at the camera.
