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Topic Started: May 27 2006, 08:12 PM (49 Views)
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BOCA GRANDE, Fla. (AP) - Fishing Captain Bucky Dennis has been trying to catch a record hammerhead shark for 10 years. He may have finally succeeded.

On Tuesday, he reeled in a monstrous 576-kilogram shark that ate an 11-kilogram stingray for bait. If confirmed, his all-tackle catch would beat by nearly 135 kilograms the current world record for a hammerhead shark.

Dennis, who was using 130-pound (59-kilogram) test line, and three friends fought the 4.35 metre shark for five hours and it dragged his boat about 20 kilometres offshore before they got it aboard.

"It's fun hooking them, but if you get too close, they will bite," Dennis said. "And whatever they bite, they will bite off."

The International Game Fish Association is reviewing the catch to determine if it qualifies as a record, a process that will take about 60 days. The current all-tackle world record hammerhead is 446 kilograms, caught in 1982, according to the association.

The largest shark ever hooked was an 1,199-kilogram great white caught off the southern coast of Australia in 1959.
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