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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 513.1 | Minor coerrections & update | USCTR1::HAMELIN | | Wed Aug 14 1996 13:39 | 15 |
| Here's a few other details on this world record blue shark....
Caught by Peter Bergin, a recent transplant to Shrewsbury, Ma who used
to run charters out of Spring Lake,NJ. The "Quality Time" out of Scituate
was captained by Steve James.
Blue Shark weighed 545# and measured 11'3". Prior record was caught off
Australia in Oct.'76, weighed 437#. Peter used 80# test on a 6'rod/ stand-up
gear w/ a back harness.Seas were running about 10'.
Steve placed 2nd in the 2-day cumulative-total tourney which required
minimum weight of 300# shark to register. Winner had total of 661#
including a 356#. Steve will have the head and shoulder mounted.
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| 513.2 | | WAHOO::LEVESQUE | and your little dog, too! | Thu Aug 15 1996 10:08 | 2 |
| That's amazingly short for such a heavy blue shark. It must have been
very stocky.
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| 513.3 | | UHUH::LUCIA | http://asaab.zko.dec.com/~lucia/biography.html | Thu Aug 15 1996 10:42 | 5 |
| I agree with Mark. I've seen many a 10 footer while tuna fishing and they have
never been more than 10 minutes of effort to get to the boat. Granted, on 250#
test line, but still. The 10 footers are probably low 200 pound range.
Tim
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| 513.4 | string bean | DELNI::GAFFNEY | Gone fishin/racin | Thu Aug 15 1996 20:19 | 3 |
| The angler was 6' tall, but only weighed 145 pounds!
With a 6 foot rod, standing up, in ten foot seas, I'd
say he was lucky to get it to the boat in 6 1/2 hours :*)
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| 513.5 | Talk About A Fish | ASABET::JDOYLE | | Fri Aug 16 1996 09:14 | 7 |
| On the news on the way in this morning there was some talk of great
white caught off Beverly and if I heard it right it was 18' and
2k Pounds. Are my ears going bad or would one of these things run
that many pounds. Not sure I would want to take the hook out of this
fellows mouth.
John
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| 513.6 | a ton of teeth | USCTR1::HAMELIN | | Fri Aug 16 1996 09:28 | 4 |
| today's paper had it as 17' and 2000#'s (1T). Too bad there wasn't a
picture for comparison to the blue shark...the great white would make
the blue look like a runt!
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| 513.7 | This is what I heard.... | FABSIX::E_MAXWELL | The torture never stops... | Fri Aug 16 1996 21:42 | 5 |
| The Great White was netted. When they cut it open they
found the head of a dolphin in it, as in flipper.
Lil Ed
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| 513.8 | Uuuurrrrrpppp! | ESB02::TATOSIAN | The Compleat Tangler | Fri Aug 16 1996 22:23 | 9 |
| Actually what they found was the entire (nearly undigested) carcass of
a rather small porpoise (31 lbs). I happened to catch a live news feed
from the deck of the boat when the fisheries scientists were doing the
necropsy and they actually showed the porpoise slide out onto the
deck (eeewwww!)...
The talking heads commented that they hoped the viewers weren't eating
dinner...
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| 513.9 | Flyrod shark record | USCTR1::HAMELIN | | Thu Sep 05 1996 13:49 | 4 |
| Read in one of the local fishing rags that a new record for shark via
flyrod was also set in this tourney... I believe it was close to 40#
and caught by a MV local. It was also a blue (baby blue ???)
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