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| 400-Pound Monster Catch |
Soren Beck is no mere angler. Armed with only a small boat and a fishing rod, Beck landed a 443-pound halibut in the Arctic waters off of Norway. Beck had to chase the fish in his boat to stop his rod and line from snapping.
"These halibut can be caught by a variety of methods, but drifting with coalfish or big shad-jigs baited with a worm have caught the majority," Cato Bekkevold, an expert from the region, told the Daily Mail. "The area where he caught it is famed for cod and coalfish, but last year the Wildwater Camps brought up 80 halibut."
Once measured, the fish was 8 feet 1 inch in length and 6 feet 4 inches around the middle. It weighed 24-pounds more than the previous record for a line-caught halibut. The commercial fishing record for a halibut is 882 pounds. The average halibut reaches maturity at ten years old and averages 3 feet 4 inches in length.
Along with a hook on the end of a pole, three fisherman were needed to haul in the record breaking fish which fought for another half an hour aboard the boat.
The market price for a halibut that size would have been $4,314 if sold.
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