Great whites are now protected in some areas after years of being hunted for their fins and teeth resulted in their numbers decreasing over-fishing has resulted in a third of all sharks, rays and chimaeras being at risk of extinction. The biggest shark ever caught was by Alfred Dean in 1959 in Australia, he managed to catch a 2,604-pound beast using a porpoise for bait. The film ‘Jaws’ made a film star of the great white shark and it’s the world’s largest known predatory fish, often referred to as ‘the ultimate shark’.
This is even more amazing when you think that there wasn’t the technology around then that anglers have access to now such as sonar fish finders, GPS and high-tech reels. It took 2 hours to bring it in and as yet, nobody has managed to beat this record. SWORDFISHĦ0 years ago, in 1953, Louis Marron caught a record-breaking 1,182-pound broadbill swordfish off the coast of Chile. This fish is on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. A year later he took the record back, catching a 1,560-pound marlin that was fourteen and a half feet long who apparently leapt out of the water 49 times during the process, which lasted an hour and 45 minutes. However, the record was originally set in 1952, by Alfred Glassel in Peru, only for someone to top it just a few days later. Weighing in at 1,805 pounds it is officially the biggest marlin ever caught on a rod and reel. In 1970, a group of anglers caught ‘Choy’s Monster’ near Hawaii. So this got us thinking, what’s the biggest fish ever caught in the world? MARLIN We’ve all seen the photos of anglers standing holding a massive fish, with huge grins on their faces who wouldn’t want to be that person, the one who lands the big one?
Often, it’s the thought that the next one is going to be The One that keeps you going, and while fishing is generally a calm sport with a great community, it’s human nature to be a bit competitive. Nowadays, it’s thought of as one of the more relaxing hobbies/sports you’re out in the fresh air, surrounded by nature and near water, which is known to be a great stress reliever as studies show that being exposed to natural environments can lower anxiety.īut there’s also an element of thrill involved the anticipation of the catch, the challenge. People take up fishing for all kinds of reasons traditionally it was one of the few ways humans could feed themselves, and therefore survive, but at some point, it also became a recreational pastime, the first record of recreational fishing was in an essay from 1496.
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