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DID YOU KNOW...
THE BIGGEST FISH EVER HOOKED
AND LANDED?
What may be the
largest fish ever hooked and landed is described in "Fishes and
Fishing in Louisiana" by James Gowanloch (1933). Gowanloch tells
how Captain Jay Gould captured a manta ray that measured 19
feet, 9 inches from wing-tip to wing-tip.
The ray was hooked on a large shark hook on 1,200 feet of
1/2-inch rope, and when it had been subdued and towed back to
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., the city's 20-ton crane had to be used to
lift the fish from the water, after the chain hoists on three
smaller cranes were stripped in trying to bring it up. The manta
ray's weight was estimated at 5,500 pounds.
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