The return trip is almost 150 kilometres.” The Ulladulla Game Fishing Club president said the catch was being frozen at the Ulladulla Fishing Co Op and would be taxidermied. The host of a New Zealand fishing show has broken a 65-year-old world record by catching a monster broadbill swordfish.

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"If the hook was nestled in the corner of the mouth and had lots of energy, then of course we would let it go, that was our intention for the day, but the fish has swallowed the hook. We have been blessed with this one. ARKive

The swordfish is an enormous saltwater fish found in tropical and temperate waters all through the world, now and then at profundities of up to 1800 feet. Best Swordfish in Walt Disney World, Florida: Find 33,143 Tripadvisor traveller reviews of THE BEST Swordfish and search by price, location, and more. The world record is a 1,182-pound swordfish caught May 7, 1953, in Iquique, Chile, according to the International Game Fish Association. (2015).

“But, this one was a lot thicker through the tail.

“I spend 90 per cent of my time at this time of year chasing swordfish.

After a 337kg swordfish catch in 2017, Mr Lirantzis said he had an “inkling” there was a bigger “monster” out there to be caught. FishBase.orgWood, Gerald The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats (1983) Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. “That is very short.
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The largest living Much larger bony fish existed prehistorically, the largest ever known having been Wood, Gerald L. (1976). The boys broke the camera by dropping it so i was given only this basic footage to … There was no rod bent, no line screaming off the reel.

This fish was 961 pounds, so we were only 39 pounds off,” he said.  After a 337kg swordfish catch in 2017, Mr Lirantzis said he had an “inkling” there was a bigger “monster” out there to be caught.  “I didn’t think it would happen so quick,” he said.  “I spend 90 per cent of my time at this time of year chasing swordfish. 43 (14): 221–238. This one stayed on the surface for the whole fight.  “It was within 50 metres of the boat for the entire fight.”  It took Mr Ryan one hour and 50 minutes to get the swordfish to the boat, and  another hour for the four grown men to get it into the boat.  “That is very short. "Masturus lanceolatus" in FishBase.

I caught one the year before that tipped the scales right at 600 pounds,” Stanczyk wrote in am April 7 Facebook post.

The crew were using a 130-pound Non International Game Fish Association (IGFA) rated line.  However, Mr Lirantzis said he didn’t “need a piece of paper” to prove the catch.  “We don’t go fishing for the record.
“I didn’t think it would happen so quick,” he said. These very large swords are always females, as males rarely exceed 200 pounds. Young teens fish off a Fiesta Key, Fla., at … Ulladulla captain George Lirantzis, along with fisherman Mitch Ryan, and crew Ken and Pete Rushton, took his boat Side Affect, a Noosa Cat 2700, 75 kilomertres off Mallacoota on Sunday chasing swordfish. They are a popular sport fish of the billfish category, though elusive.

But it wasn’t until the party returned to Bud ‘N’ Mary’s and pulled the fish onto the scale that he realized it was a record breaker.“When we hoisted her up, the digital scale read 757.8 pounds! "Predatory behaviour of the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), with notes on its biology". At 361kg, it's the biggest swordfish ever caught by a woman and the world's biggest caught on a 60kg line. The mammoth fish dragged Stanczyk’s boat, the Broad Minded, 20 miles.Stanczyk, 34, and his family are known as daytime sword-fishing pioneers in the Keys and have mastered the art of hooking the deepwater fish, which had previously been targeted mostly at night.But, while he’s boated — and tagged and released — many big fish over the years, he was floored when Lussier reeled the fish close enough to the boat to get a good look at just how large this one was.“This was the fattest swordfish I had ever seen.

The largest swordfish ever caught weighed 1,182 pounds, and was nabbed in Chile, according to the Herald.

A South Coast angler has landed Australia’s biggest swordfish and the second largest in the world.Weighing in at 436.2kg, the fish came second only to a swordfish caught in Chile in 1953 which weighed 536.1kg. Docstoc.comHolcik, J., Hensel, K., Nieslanik, J., and L. Skacel. “We saw it jump out, which was unusual because most of them go back down.

"I am addicted to fishing and there is always going to be another fish out there," Ms Sinden said.