Former Bucs defensive tackle Warren Sapp, a regular on charter fishing trips in his retirement these days, was bitten in the arm by a shark while lobstering on a charter based out of Marathon in the Florida Keys. 
 
 "It's simple," charter captain Jack Carlson wrote via text message while still cleaning up Wednesday afternoon. "He was lobstering with me and a shark bit Sapp while he was grabbing the lobster. He's OK." 
 
 Carlson's charter, Two Conchs, posted a photo to Instagram with a photo of a deep, bloody gash to Sapp's arm. "Warren Sapp attacked by a shark while lobstering," he wrote, adding the hashtag #epicbattle. "The shark wanted the lobster just as bad as Sapp," he later wrote on Instagram. "Sapp got the lobster and the Shark got his lick in too." 
 
 Carlson said by phone he was fishing on Florida Bay on Wednesday, about seven miles out from Marathon in 9 feet of water. Sapp was reached for a lobster that a shark -- one witness thought it was a small nurse shark, perhaps four feet long -- also wanted. 
 
 "The sharks hang around those lobster holes, because they feed on the lobster as well," Carlson said. 
 
 Carlson said Sapp "may need stitches" for the injury -- to the inside of his left forearm, near the elbow -- but that he kept fishing. "We bandaged it up, put some gauze on there, some black electrical tape and hit a couple more spots, then headed in," Carlson said. 
 
 Sapp, now a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Bucs' Ring of Honor, posted a photo on Instagram earlier Wednesday showing him going out lobstering with Two Conchs and Carlson. He spoke briefly with the Times by phone Wednesday before abruptly hanging up. 

 Former NFL great Warren Sapp had plenty of fresh lobster to eat for dinner on Wednesday night. 
 
 That’s the good news. 
 
 The bad news is that one of those may have cost the Hall of Famer a small piece of his arm. 
 
 Check out this photo posted on the Instagram feed of Two Conchs Charters out of the Marathon Florida Keys. It appears to show one of Sapp’s arms after a shark was through with it. 
 
 https://www.instagram.com/p/BIYP5RWB3pj/?taken-by=twoconchs 
 
 Charter captain Jack Carlson told the Tampa Bay Times that Sapp is OK but “may need stitches.” 
 
 Carlson said he took Sapp and his party out about seven miles from Marathon with water about 9 feet deep. At one point, the captain said, Sapp reached for a lobster that a 4-foot nurse shark already had its eye on. 
 
 "The shark wanted the lobster just as bad as Sapp," Carlson wrote on Instagram. "Sapp got the lobster and the shark got his lick in too." 
 
 But a little injury like that didn’t stop the fishing expedition. "We bandaged it up, put some gauze on there, some black electrical tape and hit a couple more spots, then headed in," Carlson said. 
 
 The Tampa Bay Times said Sapp hung up when a reporter called to talk about the incident. But the former Buccaneers and Raiders standout seemed to be keeping a sense of humor about it all on Twitter. 
 
 https://twitter.com/WarrenSapp/status/758434064634261504 
 
 https://twitter.com/WarrenSapp/status/758433762090717185 
 
 https://twitter.com/WarrenSapp/status/758602842923937792 
 
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– It's a bad idea to get between a shark and its meal. The same could probably be said about NFL Hall-of-Famer Warren Sapp. So when Sapp and a shark both found themselves going after the same lobster Wednesday, the result was understandably gruesome. The Tampa Bay Times reports Sapp was lobstering off a charter boat in the Florida Keys when he reached for a lobster and felt something take a bite out of his arm. "The shark wanted the lobster just as bad as Sapp," the Los Angeles Times quotes the boat's captain as saying. "Sapp got the lobster, and the shark got his lick in too." A witness says Sapp was attacked by what appeared to be a 4-foot-long nurse shark. A photo posted to Instagram afterward shows a pretty gnarly wound just below Sapp's elbow. But Sapp handled it like a pro—bandaging up the bite with gauze and electrical tape and continuing to fish—and even appears to be in good humor about the whole thing. "Shark-1 Me-0 #HeWon," he tweeted.