US: caught record size hammerhead shark

There’s no doubt Tim McClellen will be framing the picture of him with the massive, record-breaking hammerhead shark he caught over the weekend.

McClellen won 1st place when he caught the 1,033 pound (467 kg) shark in the 55 th Annual Texas City Jaycees Tackle Time Fishing Tournament on July 9. 

His catch smashed the 871 pound record set in 1980 in the Gulf of Mexico.

Source: http://kxan.com

FLORIDA: caught a 10 foot mako shark from the beach

The past week a fishing team of military veterans landed a 10 foot mako shark from a beach in Navarre, Florida.

It is a very rare catch, in fact, mako sharks are almost never caught from shore. the huge fish was caught after a two-hour struggle by Chester Gamble, co-founder of the group, "American Yakers".

To bait the large shark, a hooked slab of king mackerel was paddled nearly a half-mile from shore via kayak.

NEWS: caught an huge hammerhead shark

While fishing from a beach in Western Australia, angler Jamie Dennis caught and released an huge hammerhead shark that missed out on becoming a world record for released sharks due to a technicality.

He spent over an hour and a half reeling in the great hammerhead shark at Pages Beach in Geraldton, and landed the beast with the help of a friend.

The pair measured the bigshark, took photos and released it back into the ocean. They followed it in a kayak for about 100 yards before it disappeared.

The shark measured 3.85 meters or 12.6 feet and was caught on 130-pound line-class category in the International Land Based Shark Fishing Association world-record book.

But unfortunately Dennis and his friend missed one measurement.

He can’t claim the record because I didn’t measure its girth.

The current record for a caught-and-released hammerhead shark in the 130-pound line class was by Josh Emerson on Jensen Beach in Florida in April 2008. 
That hammerhead shark measured 12 feet, 1 inch with a 6-foot girth. Based on a formula using measurements, it weighed an estimated 758 pounds.

FLORIDA: cauhgt massive 13 foot hammerhead shark

While fishing from a shore  in Sanibel, Florida, these three guys have proved that they certainly have what it takes to go head-to-head with a massive 13 foot hammerhead shark!

Uk: record size threasher shark caught

A group of fishermen friends have landed what they believe to be a record-breaking thresher shark.

One of the anglers spent over one hour dragging the 368 lb or 167 kg huge fish on board the boat off the coast of Cornwall the past Sunday.

Angler Nick Lane, said they had submitted a record application after the Shark Trust calculated the weight based on the shark's dimensions.

US: caught an huge 13 feet hammerhead

Shore angler Eric Ozolins  reeled in a massive great hammerhead shark last weekend off the coast of Texas.

He needed  that it took an hour and fifteen minutes to capture the monster fish close to Padre Island, which is located in southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

The shark was measured 13 feet long and 80 inches in girth.

Teh huge shark was released after some quick pics.

WORLD RECORD: incredible catch of a mako

New Zealand angler and renowned light-tackle specialist Guy Jacobsen recently submitted yet another incredible catch on ultra-light tackle that could earn him a world record.

Jacobsen and the crew of the Hookin’ Bull, captained by John Batterton, battled this 159.6 kg (351 lb 13 oz) mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) for over an hour on 1 kg (2 lb) line, after the fish took the chunk of swordfish they were using for bait. The fish was caught on May 15th while fishing on Poor Knights Rise, New Zealand.

If approved, this catch would become the new men’s 1 kg (2 lb) line class record, more than doubling the existing record of 68.2 kg (150 lb 5 oz).

Source: www.igfa.org

FLORIDA: caught and released big sawfish from a pier

An angler n on Naples Pier in Florida hooked into a smalltooth sawfish that captured the attention of dozens of beachgoers.

The pier fisherman had no recourse but to walk down the pier and onto the beach in an attempt to take the hook out and release the huge sawfish, but that was easier said than done.

US: caught a giant 550 pound thresher shark

The past week angler Robbie Maillat and his fishing buddies unloaded a 550 pound - 249 kilos thresher shark  in Oceanside, California,

A photo of the catch was posted Friday on Instagram, by fishing writer Joe Sarmiento. It shows the 20-foot shark hanging upside down, with its remarkably long tail fin curved in an arc.

In fact, it was just a very large thresher shark, falling 25 pounds shy of the California record and 217 pounds shy of the world record.



The largest shark to be pulled ashore in California is said to have been a mako shark that was caught in June 2013.

That shark weighed a massive 1,323 pounds - 599.5 kilos, and was caught off Huntington Beach

USA: caught huge shark estimated to be over 2,500 pounds

Captain Chip Michalove of "Outcast Sport Fishing" might have caught the all-tackle world record white shark. He was fishing off  off Hilton Head, in South Carolina, US.

The great white shark was hooked at around 2:50 in the afternoon and finally brought to the boat at 7 p.m. M

Michalove managed to attach near its dorsal fin an acoustic tag a scientist had given him, and he obtained a DNA sample.

After a 2-minute blistering run, she jumped completely out of the water and after an insane battle, we ended up getting her boat side.

He estimated that the great white shark weighed 2,500 pounds (1,135 kg), though there is no way to confirm that.

The all-tackle world record for a great white shark is 2,664 pounds, caught by Alfred Dean at Ceduna, Australia, back in 1959.


News source: http://www.grindtv.com

SOUTH AFRICA: supersonic white shark attacks a kayak

Expert kayak fisherman Devon De Lange found himself in a perilous position off the coast of South Africa while hooked up with a small dorado.

A massive white shark was after his catch and he wound up being in the wrong place at the right time.

AUSTRALIA: two mega sharks caught and released

Two fishermen, Joshua Butterworth and Jethro Bonnichta, spent 10 days fishing on a beach north of Carnarvon,  in Western Australia, and caught and released 30 sharks, including two “huge sharks”

On their Facebbok accounts posed for photos of a massive hammerhead shark and an equally huge tiger shark that were estimated to weigh between 780 and 880 pounds.

Jethro , who spent more than an hour and a half battling the 13.5 foot hammerhead, which stripped out 2,500 feet of line three times, collapsed from exhaustion afterward.



The monster tiger shark took 30 to 40 minutes to land, by Bonnichta and was also over 13-feet long.

The pair also caught several lemon sharks and nurse sharks. All the sharks were released

VIDEO: reef shark try to attack a GT

In this short video uploaded on Youtube by "Morning Tide Fishing" you can see a reef shark trying bloody hard to eat a small Giant Trevally (GT)

AUSTRALIA: caught in a river a 550 pound bull shark

Angler Denis Rivers was fishing in his home country, Australia and caught an enormous, 10-foot bull shark with an estimated weight of 550 pounds.

Denis Rivers was night fishing alone three miles in Hastings River near Port Macquarie when he hooked the huge bull shark using eel for bait.

The big fish  spooled over 400 meters (1,300 feet) of line in one single run. Denis  needed  an hour to get it to the rocks.

Denis  phoned a friend, and had him come down and use his vehicle to pull the bull shark up onto a nearby boat ramp.


After snapping off some photos, Rivers and the others managed to pull the bull shark back into the water and release it.

NEWS: caught monster great shark of 4,400 pounds

A giant great white shark weighing 4,400 pounds - 2,000 kilos was caught this week  off Sousse, Tunisia (North Africa) and sold by the fisherman for 3,000 dinars, or about $1,500.

This kind of catch are very rare in the Mediterranean and is done ecxusilvely accidentally by commercial net fishermen..

The catch, however, is being criticized because white sharks are listed as a vulnerable species by the "International Union for Conservation of Nature" and protected in most parts of the world.

AUSTRALIA: caught a 21 foot basking shark

A 21 foot basking shark was accidentally caught off off the coast of Victoria; seems that is the first time this kind of huge shark has been seen near Australia for almost 100 years or so.

Professional fisherman James Owen and his crew caught the this shark in their trawler at Portland, in Victoria on Sunday. They they decided to donate the rare 6,000 plus pound male shark to science.



This knid of shark is a plankton-eating filter feeders and the world’s second-largest fish, behind whale sharks, capable of reaching lengths of nearly 30 plus feet.



Museum Victoria told reporters that this was only the third time it has been able to work with a basking shark in 160 years that is how rare they are in Australian waters.

Scientists have obtained tissue and skin samples for DNA and isotope analysis, which might reveal where the shark came from and what it had been eating.

US: massive tiger shark landed in Florida

Young angler  JD Fagan , while night fishing in landed a monstrous shark from Ft. Lauderdale beach, Florida.

He  paddled out a line baited with a stingray, waited less than 3 hours before he felt a tug, and 45 minutes later he and three others friends were fighting with a tiger shark measuring about 12 feet and weighing sure more than 850 pounds.

They released the shark very quickly because it was pregant. In fact they  measured only the length (11 feet and 9 inches) and did not have time to measure the girth.

This huge tiger shark is the latest of several large sharks caught from Florida beaches during the last year or so, including a great white shark landed in early May near Panama City.



This kind of night shark fishing is becoming very popular, there are a lot of people doing this now.

Bull sharks, hammerheads, tiger sharks, an sometimes white sharks are among species of large sharks being hooked and, in most cases, released.

US: caught in Florida an huge sawfish shark

Florida angler Todd Vandergaag was beach fishing when he hooked something big; it was a rare huge sawfish.

Vandergaag was night fishing with friends near Venice beach in Florida trying to catch some sharks. He usually catch hammerhead, bull or lemon sharks.

He was using specific shark tackle: a Duel 12/0 reel spooled with 300 lb braid line, finished off with 125 lb mono for his leader.

He  reports that the huge shark fought hard for about fortyfive minutes,

They didn't measured exactly the fish,  wanting to get it back into the ocean as quickly as possible,but estimated to be around 13 feet.

FLORIDA: two 10 feet sharks caught with one hooked bait

Fishing few miles off Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, angler Tim Kennedy had the luck to catch two 10 feet sharks on one hooked bait.


He had at the end of the line t two different species, each stout in their own right.

One hammerhead and one dusky shark, had attached themselves to the rig. It appears that one shark ate the bait initially and upon swallowing the rig, it passed through its gill slits, allowing another hungry shark to get attached to the hook and bait dangling from shark.

AUSTRALIA: caught monster size shark of 1,000 lb

While shore fishing in New South Wales, Australia a shark angler has caught and released “one of the largest tiger sharks ever caught off a beach in the world.

Max, the angler says that based on measurements the tiger shark was 14 feet long and weighed at least 1,000 pounds or 453 kilos.

Max was using 100 lb line and an heavy steel leader, and an old Penn Senator reel.  After the hook up, the first run of the shark was about 3000 yards.



Max fought the big shark for over 2 and half hours and fortunately decided to released it after several photos.

According to IGFA (International Game Fish Association - www.igfa.org) the largest tiger shark ever caught by a angler from a boat, is a 1,785 pound - 808 kilos landed in Australia