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I remember reading that report of that guy having a thresher on for a while before it snapped him off. Luckily he got to see it breach and could identify it. I've heard of threshers caught overseas from the shore before now in places where there are shed loads of sharks but not in the UK. 2 lads once hooked a porgie and got it close in but were unable to land it due to it's size and the nature of the rocks they were on. I did once hear of anglers on the Amlwch charter boat the Kerry Kim seeing a thresher leap out of the water years ago and another tale of a shark having a go at a tope that was being reeled in by an angler on the Kerry Kim. This was the bite mark:

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Shark hookups or captures are not that common in the area, even off the charter boats of North Wales. I think I have only seen a handful of porgies reported by boats over all the times I've been reading the angling reports, which is over a decade now, but I've not heard of a North Wales boat catching any other species apart from tope and the odd porgie, not in recent years anyway.

There's been a few instances of people being spooled from the shore by an unknown beast but they have never seen it so the jury is still out on that. I myself once had a young, but still massive seal take a conger I'd hooked once at night. It tore line off like you wouldn't believe, even with my tightened up drag it was wrenching line off. Nearly pulled me in. It wasn't until right near the edge that the seal bobbed it's head up that I actually got to see it was a seal. I reckon quite a few of these getting spooled encounters are down to seals that stay under water, or people don't see because it's at night. Maybe there was a capture of a  thresher or mako, etc caught by a charter boat in North Wales. Be great to hear about it if there was.