Here’s a bit of advice to any angler who catches a potential record-breaking fish and wants to keep it hush-hush: don’t leave the fish draped out in the back of a pickup truck while making a pit stop for gas in broad daylight.
Florida anglers Earnie and Joey Polk learned that lesson the hard way this week after they teamed up to land an incredible 11-foot long, 805-pound shortfin mako Tuesday night. They wanted to keep the catch a secret, but the shark exceeded their pickup’s bed capacity. A protruding dorsal fin and tail draped over an open tailgate attracted onlookers when the cousins stopped for fuel. A candid photograph of Joey at the pump landed on Facebook and has since gone viral.
Though the cousins told the Pensacola News Journal they’re keeping the exact location of their catch a secret, they did reveal that they hooked the shark off a Gulf Coast beach around 10:30 p.m. and fought it for about an hour before bringing it to shore.
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Holy Mako!!! It must be all that good ooze from the BP gusher helping those fishie grow & grow. ;)
ReplyDeleteMust have many vitamins that we don't know about.:)
DeleteOK, so what do you do with 800lbs of dead shark?
ReplyDeleteEat it.
Delete...and rich minerals deep within... ;)
ReplyDeleteYum. This sounds good.
DeleteMako Shark with Grilled Pineapple Salsa
absolutely eat it - grilled shark steaks with grilled pineapple salsa - yummo!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to spice it up also.
Deletehttp://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/dave-lieberman/mako-shark-with-grilled-pineapple-salsa.html
20 twists of pepper - Effective, but not overpowering - lovely!
Delete...not even supposed to eat the fish you catch in Michigan....
...not even supposed to eat the fish you catch in Michigan....
DeleteWhy is that?
I just found this recent article that answers your question- surrounded by the Great Lakes, plus all the internal rivers and lakes - the comments to the article are interesting, too. So, I guess I better leave the smoked salmon home and not contaminate you (
Deletehttp://bridgemi.com/2014/02/michigans-toxic-fish-face-long-recovery-state-finds/
Must have been written by Al Gore! Bring it down, I'll eat it just to prove I won't die right away. :)
DeleteI like your attitude - I buy the salmon from a local market in the little town where my Mom lives on Lake Huron - no one I know cares about dying from eating the fish (I obviously don't). Now that the Asian carp breached the Gate on the Chicago River, it's just a matter of time before this is all a moot point with those voracious eaters working their way thru the Great Lakes (
DeleteAsian carp
DeleteThe Vietnamese seem to like them, but not I. :)
As I recall the Asian carp were being farmed, maybe in Louisiana, not certain- then flooding during a hurricane caused the release into the Mississippi River - Go North! Get those damn Yankee fish!!!
DeleteI would have had to take it through the drive-thru at McDonald s just for fun
ReplyDeleteThat would be a trip. :) Maybe the drive-up at the bank also and ask if you could use it as collateral for the down-payment on a new boat.
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