An angler caught what is believed to be the biggest tiger shark ever captured in Western Australian waters over the weekend.
The 12 ft shark weighed nearly 630 lbs.
It was caught during the Dampier Classic fishing competition and the event organizer, Dennis Brian-Smith, says the shark will not go to waste
The shark parts will be sent away for scientific research.
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The second annual “Are You Man Enough?” Shark Challenge is scheduled for the weekend of Aug. 8-10.
Shark hunters from across the country will make their way to Fort Myers Beach, FL to have another shot at winning cash prizes for catching and releasing — or bringing in — the big one.
And the contest is apparently serious about not catching, killing and wasting sharks. Just like last year, any shark that is brought back will be fileted and donated to the Fort Myers Salvation Army Food Kitchen. Last year, over 300 pounds of shark steak was given to and served to local people in need.
Above is a little vid from last year’s event.
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Last Sunday, Julian Solis caught a 10 ft, 750 lb mako shark while fishing off southern California. He hauled the beast down the 405 on a boat trailer and headed back to the O.C.
The next day they spent hours chopping. In the end, the mako was turned into 350 pounds of meat.
By Tuesday afternoon, filets were being barbequed at Calvary Chapel WestGrove in Garden Grove, to be hauled over to Sigler Park in Westminster to feed low-income families.
One lady said, “Jesus fed 5,000 people with two fish and two loaves. Here, we fed 500 people with one mako.”
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It took five fishermen, two plumbers and a jogger to land the nearly 10 ft, 550 lb bronze whaler shark at Point Lonsdale, AU.
Bill Athanasslies was fishing off the pier about 6am yesterday when he felt a tug on the line. After struggling for 45 minutes to land the shark with the help of four fishermen at the pier, he had to enlist a few more men to finally landed the monster shark.
Bill kept its head as a trophy.
Swimmers: Stay away from that pier!
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Fritz Van Der Grifd reeled in a 13-foot, 1,000-pound hammerhead shark in shallow waters off the Florida coast Wednesday afternoon.
Fritz was fishing off of Singer Island in Palm Beach County when he snagged the shark. Apparently, he didn’t plan on killing the shark… he said he just wanted to snap a few pictures and planned on releasing it, but the shark drowned.
Check out some video here.
When fishermen off the Monterey Coast hoisted the 16-foot, 2,000 lb shark they caught, a wallet fell out of the it’s mouth!
But the owner of the wallet wasn’t in there… just a couple sea gulls and a few furry sea creatures.
The wallet has both Japanese and English writing on it and has a date of 1972, but no I.D. inside, which mean the owner’s whereabouts remain a mystery. Or maybe they just got digested…
The captain shared the edible parts of the shark with his crew, but said he kept the wallet for himself.
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This enormous Giant Freshwater Stingray was caught back in December 2007 in the Ban Pakong River in Thailand. The monster fish was captured by Tom Parker while he was fishing on a guided freshwater angling expedition. Too big to weigh, the ray had an 8 ft wingspan and was estimated to weigh around 400 lbs.
No swimming in Thailand for me…
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When a man visiting Lucaya, Bahamas noticed a swordfish swimming near the shore, he decided to prove that you don’t need to spend a lot of dough to land one of these. He caught the thing with his bare hands.
After a few photos (and some cuts and bruises) the fish was released.
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Amateur angler Nathanael Marler and his buddy caught this 6.5 ft bull shark from a Noosa canal in Australia early yesterday morning. The scary thing is, there was a whole pack of sharks in the water… and… a group of teenagers were taking a midnight dip just a few feet away!
Luckily, Nate yelled at the kids to get out of the water while he reeled in the beast.
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A Melbourne fisherman caught an 8 foot bronze whaler shark after an epic three hour battle in Port Phillip Bay, Australia.
Nick Stambanis was fishing from his rubber dinghy around noon when he hooked the 260 lb monster.
He spent the next three hours trying to hang on to the shark as it dragged him 6 miles out to the shipping channel.
After abandoning the dinghy for a larger boat Mr Stambanis was eventually able to beach the shark.
He said he would turn the big fish into many big meals.
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