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Shark caught off Boca Grande may set world record
Originally posted on May 12, 2006
A potential world record hammerhead shark was caught on Wednesday
in Boca Grande Pass.
Capt. Andy Whitbread of Fort Myers captured a 13 foot, 4 inch,
750-pound hammerhead. Whitbread used an estimated 12- to 15-pound
live crevalle jack as bait and caught the fish on 80-pound class
tackle for the potential line-class world record.
Whitbread has to submit an application to the International Game
Fish Association in Fort Lauderdale for certification of the
record.
The current world record is 620 pounds. That hammerhead was caught
in Freeport, Texas in 1976.
Whitebread managed the feat with the assistance of captains Owen
Osborne of Fort Myers and James Holland of LaBelle.
The men documented the weight on a certified truck scale in
LaBelle, and have plans to submit an application for a record to
the International Game Fish Association.
They buried the carcass in an Orange Grove in LaBelle.
