New Worldrecord Halibut - 513 lbs / 232,4 kg

New Worldrecord Halibut - 513 lbs / 232,4 kg

New Worldrecord Halibut - 513 lbs / 232,4 kg Cavalier & Blue Marlin Sport Fishing Gran Canaria

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, 19 August 2013

An angler has smashed the world record for the biggest halibut fish ever caught on rod and line.
The enormous flat fish tipped the scales at a whopping 513 lbs / 232,4 kilos
It was caught by Marco Liebenow who jokingly thought he had hooked into a submarine when the monster halibut took his bait.

After taking 90 minutes reeling it towards the surface, the 9ft long fish was too big to haul onboard his small boat in Norway.

So he and three friends tied a rope around its tail and towed it back to shore where it had to be hoisted on to the quayside by a crane.
It weighed in at 513lbs, easily beating the existing record of 419lbs for an Atlantic halibut as recognised by the International Game Fishing Association.

Hans

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