Do Not Mess With Fish 67!

and you thought fish were fun!

well Joe Waldis did when he caught the largest fish ever caught by rod and line in waters off the British Isles, returning from his fishing trip with a 1,056lb shark, it was a 12ft 9in long bluntnose six-gill shark,

this catch smashes the record for the previous rod-caught fish - a 968lb bluefin tuna (above) caught in 2001, also found off the coast of Ireland, it is more than double the weight of the heaviest rod-caught fish in the UK - a porbeagle shark weighing 507lb caught off Orkney in 1993, the heaviest fish caught in freshwater Britain is a sturgeon weighing 388lb which was reeled in from the River Towy in South Wales in 1993, Dr Simon Berrow, of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group, said: 'To be able to land a shark that size with a rod and line is amazing, it goes to show how little we know of what is out there.'

the biggest fish caught on a rod and line anywhere in the world is believed to have been a 3,427lbs great white shark, caught in 1986 off Montauk, New York, by Frank Mundus, (above) He is the fisherman thought to have been the model for the shark hunter Quint in the novel and Stephen Spielberg movie Jaws.