Amateur fisherman and property developer, Danny Vokins has been chasing sharks for some thirty years now, so imagine his joy when he landed a whopping 500lb Thresher Shark this weekend.
With some live mackerel as bait and an 80lb line, it took Danny over two hours to land the shark. Nearby fishermen had to come to his aid to help haul the 14ft shark to the side of his boat.
Linda Reynolds, from the Shark Angling Club of Great Britain, said that had this catch been killed and weighed on land, it would certainly have broken the record for largest thresher shark to be caught in UK waters.
Danny says that he doesn’t fish for records: “I am not about killing sharks, there’s not enough of them in the ocean, so I am not bothered about any record.”
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