Now that's a fish C&P
I caught a 6' 185lb Nurse Shark off the coast of Tarpon Springs, this thing would be awesome!
DESTIN, Fla. -- They knew they were gonna need a bigger boat.
The crew of the Sea Ya Later II hooked a 1,063-pound mako shark in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday. The 12-foot-6-inch shark was half the size of their 23-foot boat.
They called in The Mother Lode, a 45-foot charter boat, to help bring in the shark.
The fishermen harpooned the shark with flying gaffs, a large hook attached to rope used to pull in a fisherman's catch. The gaffs were tied the Sea Ya Later II, which was tilting and close to taking on water.
"If (the shark) hadn't been as tired as she was, this boat would be sitting on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico," said Lindsey Stanley, the Sea Ya Later II's captain.
After the shark died, it took eight men to pull it aboard the charter boat and take it to Destin on the Florida Panhandle. The mako was too heavy for the first set of scales at Fisherman's Wharf.
"I'm investigating it as a world record," said Jim Roberson, who represents the Florida Panhandle for the International Game Fish Association.
The registered weight of 1,063 pounds makes the catch eligible for the world record in the 30-pound line class for a short-fin mako. The class record is a 997-pound, 11-ounce shark caught in Sydney, Australia, in 1995.
DESTIN, Fla. -- They knew they were gonna need a bigger boat.
The crew of the Sea Ya Later II hooked a 1,063-pound mako shark in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday. The 12-foot-6-inch shark was half the size of their 23-foot boat.
They called in The Mother Lode, a 45-foot charter boat, to help bring in the shark.
The fishermen harpooned the shark with flying gaffs, a large hook attached to rope used to pull in a fisherman's catch. The gaffs were tied the Sea Ya Later II, which was tilting and close to taking on water.
"If (the shark) hadn't been as tired as she was, this boat would be sitting on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico," said Lindsey Stanley, the Sea Ya Later II's captain.
After the shark died, it took eight men to pull it aboard the charter boat and take it to Destin on the Florida Panhandle. The mako was too heavy for the first set of scales at Fisherman's Wharf.
"I'm investigating it as a world record," said Jim Roberson, who represents the Florida Panhandle for the International Game Fish Association.
The registered weight of 1,063 pounds makes the catch eligible for the world record in the 30-pound line class for a short-fin mako. The class record is a 997-pound, 11-ounce shark caught in Sydney, Australia, in 1995.
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I read that this shark was actually caught between Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach, only about 300-400 yds. off shore. The first boat, based out of Gulf Breeze, was Cobia fishing and saw it cruising along with a porpoise in it's mouth. They gaffed it with the line tied off to a cleat on the bow and ended up with the railing only about 1 ft. above the water when the shark dove for the bottom. They put out a call for the nearby second boat, based out of Destin, which came alongside and tied off to the first boat to keep it from sinking.
When they took it in to Destin it broke the first set of scales they tried.
They later found that the shark's stomach contained a ~70 lb. Cobia and half a porpoise.
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Awesome, I was trying to find some pictures. Thanks! 0 -
That's one helluva shark. 0
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