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presents 10 biggest fish catches in the
world number one Lobster 44 lb 6
oz the average adult Lobster weighs
between 1 and 2 lb the biggest lobster
ever caught was in February
1977 in Nova Scotia Canada it weighed 44
lb 6 oz and it was over 44 in Long the
second largest lobster was caught in
2012 in Maine it weighed 27 lb the
fishermen who caught it did so
accidentally when they were trying to
catch shrimp they ended up releasing it
back into the ocean number two
largemouth bass 22 lb 4
oz if you're a fisherman in North
America you know that finding the
largemouth bass is the fish to catch and
the bigger the better in 1932 a man
named George Perry caught the largest
largemouth bass ever it weighed 22 lb 4
oz in July 2009 This Record was tied
when a man in Japan named manuu kurita
caught one the same size just to be sure
he wasn't lying he was given a lie
detector test and passed number three
swordfish
1,182
lb in May of 1953 a man named Lou Maron
was fishing in Northern Chile and he
caught a swordfish that weighed
1,182 lb and was over7 79 in Long
according to reports it took him 2 hours
to reel in this massive fish it is the
heaviest fish to ever be reeled in on a
simple fishing rod today he has restored
the fish and mounted it in the
international game Fish Association
fishing Hall of F museum this is one
really big fish to this day fishermen
all over the world are just hoping that
they can reel in a swordfish half as big
number four catfish the size of a
grizzly bear
a group of fishermen was fishing in
Northern Thailand and they reeled in the
largest catfish ever caught it is also
the largest freshwater fish ever caught
the catfish was 9 ft long it weighed
over 640 lb according to reports the
catfish was the size of an average
grizzly bear since this species of fish
is endangered in the area the villagers
and fishermen tried to keep it alive but
sadly they were not successful number
five Stingray 770
lb a British man named Ian Welch was
fishing in the waters of Thailand when
he caught a record breaking Stingray it
was 7 ft long and 7 ft wide and it
weighed over 770 lb it was so big it
took him 90 minutes to reel the monster
fish in and it almost pulled him
overboard when they pulled it on board
to tag it they discovered it had a 10-ft
stinger and it was pregnant after photos
were taken the men let it back into the
water it took a total of 13 men to get
this fish on the boat number six salmon
83.3
lb in 2012 a woman named Deborah Witman
Perry was new to fishing and she went on
a guided Excursion at Good Hope canery
Resort in Canada she pulled in a giant
salmon that weighed 83.3 lb it was the
largest salmon caught in over a decade
in that region and it became the biggest
salmon caught in all time Accord
according to the international game Fish
Association after she reeled it in she
decided to let it go into the wild
number seven squid 1,89
lb in 2008 a fisherman in the Antarctic
Waters accidentally caught a squid that
was 1,089 lb and was 26 ft long after
the monster squid was caught scientists
wanted to study it so that they could
examine how it lives today it's been
stuffed and mounted and it's on display
at the tatang garua which is New
Zealand's National Museum it's believed
to be the largest squid that has ever
been caught number eight Pacific Blue
Marlin
1,656
lb over the years there have been plenty
of stories of people reeling in large
Pacific Blue Marlins in 1984 a British
man was fishing in Kona Hawaii after an
hour of fishing he reeled in a
1,656 lb Pacific Blue Marlin it was 17t
long it took over two hours for the man
to reel in this huge fish the fish that
was the second largest was caught in
Brazil in 1992 by a man named Kevin
Gardner his fish weighed 1,400 lb number
nine great white shark over 4,000
lb according to the Canadian shark
research center the largest great white
shark that was ever caught was in 1988
near Prince Edward Island in Canada the
man who caught the fish was David
mckendrick the shark was over 4,000 lb
and 20 ft long in general great white
sharks in captivity grow to be only 10
ft long many are even smaller
considering this shark was twice that
size it was a pretty amazing catch many
people think that great white sharks
this size only exist in the movies but
clearly that's not true number 10 big
catch the type of fish in this picture
is not known how however it certainly
deserves a stop on the 10 biggest fish
catches in the world this massive fish
didn't seem to scare the villagers as
they can be seen trying to catch the
fish it isn't known how they expected to
catch the fish this way or what they
were going to do with the fish if they
did finally catch it subscribe for more
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