Do Not Mess With Fish 163,

and you thought fish were fun!

all was going well until a 10ft-long porbeagle shark, (Lamna nasus) weighing more than 550lb dragged Wayne Comben and Graeme Pullen in their tiny boat for a mile out to sea, they were fishing for slightly smaller fish off Boscastle, North Cornwall, Mr Pullen said: 'it was getting towards the end of the day and I just tipped three buckets of chum over the side of the boat, all the seagulls came over to feed on it and then in a split second they all rose off the water, at that moment this enormous shark ripped through the surface, thrashing its tail and fins about and went into a feeding frenzy, it took our mackerel bait and got our small hook in the corner of its mouth and dragged us for a mile towards the Atlantic,'


one and a half hours later the fish was tagged and released, Dr Phil Williams, an independent expert of marine species, has studied the footage and photographs of the catch, he said: 'the current British record for a shark is 507lbs and this has got that beaten hands down, looking at the footage, the shark is immense,'  Chris Brown, a marine biologist for the chain of SeaLife centres, said: 'if the length and bulk descriptions of this fish are accurate then its probably not far off the 550lbs mark, the pictures certainly seem to support the fisherman's story,' so there you have it, one that did not get away,


I can imagine the story being told in the bar that evening, spreading hands apart as far as they will go, 'it was that big I tell you!'