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24 November 2009 11:59
An American angler has successfully caught and released the biggest fish in history, a Great White shark estimated at a phenomena 4,600lb.
The ocean’s most feared predator was captured to help scientfic research by big-game fisherman and film producer Chris Fischer, off the coast of Baja in Mexico, and his incredible footage will hit our screens next year in a new television series.
His catch included three sharks in excess of 4,000lb, the biggest being a 16ft 7ins log female, and it is the first time that fish of this size have been examined and tagged alive Chris and his team invented a unique system to carry out the operation aroud Guadalupe Island with a rig involving the largest circle hook ever produed, a custom-made Mustad 27/0 version connected to a steel chain, four strands of 1,000lb cable wire as a trace and a long length of tow rope.
The bait, a 40lb piece of tuna, was suspended underneath four huge commercial fishing buoys which created so much water resistance that even a Great White struggled to pull them under. And the hydraulic winch on their 126ft mother ship was converted into a cradle to hoist each shark aboard, where top scientist Dr Michael Domeier took blood samples and attached tags
An American angler has successfully caught and released the biggest fish in history, a Great White shark estimated at a phenomena 4,600lb.
The ocean’s most feared predator was captured to help scientfic research by big-game fisherman and film producer Chris Fischer, off the coast of Baja in Mexico, and his incredible footage will hit our screens next year in a new television series.
His catch included three sharks in excess of 4,000lb, the biggest being a 16ft 7ins log female, and it is the first time that fish of this size have been examined and tagged alive Chris and his team invented a unique system to carry out the operation aroud Guadalupe Island with a rig involving the largest circle hook ever produed, a custom-made Mustad 27/0 version connected to a steel chain, four strands of 1,000lb cable wire as a trace and a long length of tow rope.
The bait, a 40lb piece of tuna, was suspended underneath four huge commercial fishing buoys which created so much water resistance that even a Great White struggled to pull them under. And the hydraulic winch on their 126ft mother ship was converted into a cradle to hoist each shark aboard, where top scientist Dr Michael Domeier took blood samples and attached tags
