I Guess They Don't Need A Bigger Boat

Chaika's Dad was just talking about this, and when I get home Sprunger's already emailed the link to me. Now I don't have to go look it up, and that's fantastic. Getting to the point, some guys caught a 1262-pound, 14-foot hammerhead shark in the Gulf off the coast of Florida:

On May 23, skipper Bucky Dennis of Port Charlotte, Fla., watched a massive hammerhead shark chomp down on a stingray he was live-lining in Boca Grand Pass.

By the time he and his crew had secured the fish, nearly six hours had passed and he found himself 12 miles offshore in his 23-foot flats boat.

Although Dennis guessed that the fish reached the 1,000-pound mark, it wasn't until the shark hit a certified scale later that night that he found out he may have a shot at the next International Game Fish Association all-tackle world record for great hammerhead.

Measuring 14½ feet, the mammoth shark tipped the scales at 1,262 pounds — potentially crushing the former record of 991-pound[s].

Posted: Thu - May 25, 2006 at 10:14 PM

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