Hammerhead Shark Fishing Records
Hammerhead sharks are one of those weird animals that when you look at them it is just hard to understand how they evolved into such a strange looking creature, but this story is not about the hammerheads looks!
This story is both an interesting and sad one in the world of shark fishing. It is of a giant female hammerhead shark that was caught on May 23, 2006 off of the coast of Florida, out in Boca Grande Pass by Bucky Dennis. This amazing hammerhead shark was was simply huge, it weighed an astounding 1,262 pounds and measured around 14.5 feet long! Which just happened to be a new world hammerhead shark fishing record! Not too shabby for a day of Shark Fishing. I think anyone would love to catch a hammerhead shark of these amazing and record proportions.
The interesting and sad thing about this record shark is that inside of this female hammerhead shark was 55 little hammerhead pups. This was the most pups that any scientist had ever seen. The scientists estimated this massive shark to be around 40 years old, and they said she was just about ready to give birth. It is very sad that these pups never made it to birth, so that they could help with repopulating the hammerhead shark population, but on a good note this amazing shark fishing catch will allow scientists to learn more about this incredible fish and its birth cycle.
Check out the pictures below of this record shark and it’s record setting 55 little hammerhead pups.
As you can see in the previous pictures Bucky Denis is no stranger shark fishing or catching world record hammerhead sharks. Well he has done it again! Check out one of his more recent catches, it is a 1,060 pound hammer head shark that measures just over 13 feet long. This monster fish was caught out in Boca Grande pass, the same place that he caught the above record fish. Boca Grand Pass is a 12 fathom deep pass that is well known for producing really big tarpon and its even bigger record breaking sharks. It is fairly common while fishing for tarpon in the Boca Grande Pass to have your prize catch bitten in half by big bull sharks and giant hammerheads.
Around the same time that the 1,060 pound Boca Grande Pass hammerhead shark was beeing brought in, another angler was battling another huge shark. Angler Fritz Van der Grift was out shark fishing with his father, a friend, and charter captain Greg Bogdan in shallow water just off Singer Island near West Palm Beach, Florida when he hooked a whopper of a fish.
It might not have been a record shark, but this almost 14 foot 1,000 pound hammerhead shark is nothing to scoff at. It took Van der Grift nearly an hour and a half to bring the giant fish up to the boat. Once they got this giant shark up to the boat Van der Grift said they had every intention of releasing the fish, but unfortunately it got injured during the long battle and died before they got it to the boat. The picture below is the only one that I could find of this massive shark.
