This not-so-small bull shark was just caught in Louisiana’s Lake Maurepas! The lake, near Baton Rouge, is a popular weekend getaway for local boaters. There are two shallow areas along the Western shoreline known as “the beach” or “the sandbar”, which are popular locations to drop anchor and sunbath, barbecue, and uh… swim.
Thanks Stephanie!
Josh Lipert, 19, caught a 9 ft. bull shark while fishing off the pier in St. Petersburg, Florida. Though the shark had not been put on ice and was outdoors for hours after the kill, Lipert said he would offer the meat to relatives. Eh?
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Some dudes in Sand Diego caught a 386-pound thresher shark with a 16-foot body and 6-foot long tail while fishing about 10 miles northwest of San Diego. It took nearly three hours to get the whopper inside the 26-foot long boat.
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Buck Dennis reeled in a potential world-record shark near Boca Grande, FL Monday morning. The hammerhead weighed in at over 1,000 lbs. The current record is for a 620 pounds shark caught in Texas back in 1982.
Dennis caught a 1,200 pound shark in 2006 in the same area. That shark broke a world record in a different class.
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A rare megamouth shark was caught, carved up and eaten by fishermen from a town in the Philippines.
Megamouth shark sightings are so rare that each find is given a number — this one, caught by fishermen from the coastal town of Donsol, was only the 41st ever seen or captured in the world.
But WWF representatives said the 13 ft, 1100 lb the megamouth was butchered and sauteed in coconut milk.
You might want to think twice before taking a dip anywhere near Palm Beach where this 1,000 pound beast was caught by a fisherman off the coast Florida.
The giant hammerhead shark is a whopping 14 feet long and took angler Fritz Van de Grift and two pals an hour and a half to reel in.
Van der Grift said he never intended to kill the shark – he just wanted to take a few pictures with his catch and release it back into the sea. But the shark died from it’s his battle wounds.
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Aidan Murray Medley has done it again. The thirteen-year-old Florida kid who made headlines last year when he caught a 551 pound bull shark, just reeled in a 340 pounder.
The Mini-Mundus gets a lot of flack for shark fishing (he likes to mount ‘em on the wall instead of letting them go) but Aidan says he’s fascinated by the ocean and wants to be a marine biologist.
His latest catch took three hours to reel in. Aidan says he plans to go after hammerheads next.
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Australian fisherman Darren Tierney was dragged over a mile out to sea by a huge 350 lb marlin off the coast of Gerroa, AU on Wednesday.
Tierney was returning from a morning of fishing when the marlin cruised by his boat and then disappeared. Tierney grabbed his speargun and dove in after the fish (what??) and speared it.
The marlin was pissed. It lunged at Tierney twice before darting off, very fast, out to sea, taking Tierney with him.
Tierney hung on tight and battled the marlin for an hour before it gave up, leaving the fisherman stranded at sea with a giant fish on the end of his line.
Luckily some fishermen heard Tierney screaming for help and gave him (and his catch) a lift back to shore.
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Bill Walters landed what is believed to be the heaviest shortfin mako shark and third-largest of any fish species ever caught on rod and reel in the Gulf of Mexico. The 1,149.5 pound shark was nearly 12 feet long and took Rogers 6.5 hours to reel it in.
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Two brothers collecting starfish off Teahupoo, Tahiti found a big ol’ tiger shark in their starfish net!
Didier and Gérard Parker collect starfish to protect the coral reefs in the area, but on Thursday, when they went to inspect their nets, the found a 13 foot tiger shark. The shark had drowned, but it still took them 2.5 hours to get it to the surface.
So much for my Tahiti vacation.
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