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05-25-2006, 08:50 PM
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1262 lb. Hammerhead shark
Holy crap this thing in huge! The guy caught it on a 23 ft. boat. They tried to get it on the boat, but the boat kept going underwater! They needed to tow it in.
http://www.saltwatersportsman.com/saltwater/hammerhead
Exclusive photos after the jump.
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05-25-2006, 09:19 PM
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WOW! Heck of a fish. I've fished for tarpon at that very spot years ago. Tangled with a hammerhead or two also  ...........Tom
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05-25-2006, 09:26 PM
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Yet saw that on TV unreal. What's wild is people are swimming in those waters all the time .  I had heard a story long time ago about a Giant Hammerhead named Hilter that live in those waters. Boca Grande has some awesome fishing around that area 
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05-25-2006, 09:54 PM
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Darn! I can remember my dad talking about a monster hammerhead shark in that area years ago. All the fishermen called it "Hitler" for some reason. Seems to me I also read an account back in the 1940s about people pulling up huge tarpon and by the time they got them to the boat, only half of the tarpon remained from something biting off the back half of them.
Oh, one thing my dad also told me. He is living down in Englewood and says that NONE of the commercial fishermen he knows will EVER go swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. They know what is in those waters..... 
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05-26-2006, 07:03 AM
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So what do they do with it?
How old do you think that poor little fish was?
If they were not going to eat it then release it!
So you are sitting down at the dinner table ready to eat dinner when you hear a knock on the door.
You get up and open the door and there he is a big hammerhead shark standing there with a harpoon gun!
He shoots you and drags you out of the house.
You are never seen again...
At least he eats you, he does not care about trophy's.
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05-26-2006, 07:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Rich Z
Darn! I can remember my dad talking about a monster hammerhead shark in that area years ago. All the fishermen called it "Hitler" for some reason. Seems to me I also read an account back in the 1940s about people pulling up huge tarpon and by the time they got them to the boat, only half of the tarpon remained from something biting off the back half of them.
Oh, one thing my dad also told me. He is living down in Englewood and says that NONE of the commercial fishermen he knows will EVER go swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. They know what is in those waters..... |
Hey Rich Z, Your dad lives in my neck of the woods.The Fishermen are smart folks not to swim in that area.Still today i have heard fishermen telling stories about reeling in their catch only to find the head is the only thing left.
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05-26-2006, 02:07 PM
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Candygram.....Flowers?
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05-26-2006, 09:33 PM
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Hammerheads aren't the ones we hear about biting people, are they?
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