11 BIGGEST Fish Ever Caught

from a massive mall and weighing of a half a ton to a catfish the size of a grizzly bear here are 11 of the biggest fish ever caught welcome to deep sea Sundays number 11 a creature thought to have inspired tales of sea serpents was caught on camera the oarfish is known as the world's longest bony fish because they live at depths up to 3,000 feet they're rarely seen by humans evidence of their existence is relegated to a handful of drawings and video along with their Caucasus which have washed up on beaches over time but in 2014 video captured an oarfish that measured around 15 feet swimming in the Sea of Cortez in Mexico it was identified by its dorsal fin which runs the length of its body these creatures are known to grow 256 feet long so this specimen smaller size might indicate it was a juvenile or fish are found in many of the world's temperate oceans number 10 an enormous stone grouper was caught in China that was so heavy a crane was needed to lift it the creature measured 1.3 meters long and weighed around 27 stone on nearly 380 pounds the size of the creature attracted large crowds trying to take pictures of it the fisherman said the largest grouper that previously caught 56 pounds reports indicated the fish would be sold to fish mongers where it was expected to command a premium price number 9 it looks almost like a Photoshop effort right and a lot of people were convinced it was fake but in 2015 a man was fishing in Italy's Po Delta and snared a monster wels catfish that measured nearly nine feet long and weighed some 280 pounds it's thought to be one of the biggest fish ever caught with rod and line the fisherman Dino Ferrari hung on for over half an hour before finally landing the huge catfish now as huge as this creature was these fish are known to grow as long as 13 feet and weigh over 860 pounds after posing for photos with the fish mr. Ferrari released the enormous creature back to the water number right an angler in Norway took 90 minutes to reel in a nine-foot Atlantic halibut and that is actually heavier than a wild gorilla weighing over 500 pounds the fish was too massive to haul aboard his small boat so three friends helped Marco Leoben out tie a rope around its tail and tow it back to shore where a crane was needed to hoist it key side at a weight of 513 pounds it has a chance to smash the record for biggest halibut fish caught using rod and line the fisherman later donated his catch to a local fish dealer number 7 this is believed to be the largest bottom fish caught from a kayak a grouper that weighed over 550 pounds the huge fish was caught off the Florida coast in 2015 and did not give up without a fight even snapping the fisherman's Rawdon hat but that fisherman John black still managed to lead the animal to shore where it was measured at 83 inches long with a seventy three inch Ghaith and its weight estimated at 552 pounds after its dimensions were taken the grouper was required by law to be released because the species is protected number six in 2015 a TV personality managed to create an exciting episode when he reeled in a stingray that measured 14 feet long and eight feet wide and weighed some 800 pounds Jeff Corwin a TV nature conservationist from the US caught the huge flat fish on the Mae Klong River in Thailand Corwin said it took several hours with many of the crew rotating on and off the reel analysis revealed that the creature was female and pregnant which helped account for its great size the catch was later featured on a show about ocean mysteries that was broadcast on ABC in the United States number five a 15-foot Greenland shot was reeled in by an angler in a kayak in 2014 Joel Abramson said he trained to capture the massive creature by reeling in 60 pound concrete blocks from a local lake then he strapped himself into a harness attached to his fishing rod in the kayak he struggled with the Greenland's shock for around 90 minutes before finally capturing the 200 year-old animal which was estimated to weigh more than 1,200 pounds it's considered an unofficial record due to kayak fishing records being loosely kept and the use of estimated whites the ancient shark was later returned to the water number four a fisherman in Cambodia got a big surprise when he inspected his gill net a Siamese giant carp that weighed around 100 kilograms or 220 pounds was trapped there ironically the fisherman said he had set his nets in a more shallow area of Cambodia's tonally sap lake where small official usually found strong currents were thought to have swept the big fish into the shallow area after noticing a huge tear in the netting the fisherman alerted authorities to inspect the massive fish the carp was later released into a deeper area of the lake number three did you know that fishermen in northern Thailand caught a fish that was the size of a grizzly bear it happened in 2005 and the creature measured almost nine feet long or two point seven meters and tipped the scales at 646 pounds or 293 kilograms the species is understandably known as the MEC Hong giant catfish and you can get an idea of just how massive this creature is in these photos by sooth Rep Chris Annavaram it seems to dwarf the two men who have spread their arms across the creatures dorsal area likely to give the viewer a better sense of scale the fisherman struggled with the Beast for nearly an hour before hauling it in eggs were harvested from the fish by Thai fisheries officials as part of a breeding program and they laid a plan to release it but the huge fish was instead sold to local villages as food after it died in captivity number two Joe Wallace managed to reel in a blunt nose sixgill shark that measured 12 feet nine inches long and weighed 1056 pounds the animal was too huge to hold it aboard mr. Wallace's boat off the coast of Southwest Ireland so it was eventually towed to an estuary where it was taken by a forklift and weighed at a local quarry the controversy arose when the shark was killed and then hold ashore that action was deemed necessary in order to verify the record number one an angler named guy cut a koa was fishing off Kona Hawaii in 2015 when he caught a blue marlin that weighed an incredible 1368 pounds you can see the huge fish in mr. kadokawa's picture look at how it Dwarfs the fishermen you can get a great idea of the sheer mass of the shiny skin critter as it's right fin appears to be sticking straight up it took some 90 minutes of struggling with the Marlin to finally bring it in and it later took seven men to transfer the fish from the 20-foot skiff to a larger yacht in pictures from Yop sport fishing charters you can see how five of the men used yellow measuring tape to assess the Marlins dimensions of 12 feet long with a girth of 84 inches and it later took a flatbed pickup truck to transport the creature away from the docks and just look at how the massive Marlin fills up that flatbed expert said it was the largest blue marlin caught off Kona in more than two decades

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Length: 8min 4sec (484 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 27 2016