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JuiceTheGator
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It's about a 30 minute run up to Boca Grande pass where the monsters lurk. There's a vid below about a 1000 pound hammerhead caught a couple years ago. Well, I'm hear to tell ya that is HALF the size of Old Hitler.
Here's a pregnant girl over 1200 pounds...would be like fuckin' a midget for old hitler!
UnderwaterTimes.com | Report: World-Record Pregnant Hammerhead Caught Off Florida was Carrying World-Record 55 Pups
Old Hitler is a 20+ foot great hammerhead that has been suckin' down 100+ pound tarpon like french fries in the pass when they're hooked by anglers. The beast is SO huge, everybody just stops whatever they're doing and floats over to gawk...has to be well over 2,000 pounds. Some guys hooked it about a decade ago. It took them straight out to sea for 7 straight hours - never changing speed or changing course. Finally, they got skeered and cut the line when weather came up and they were 20 miles out in a little flats boat.
It was probably 15 years ago - I had hooked about a 120 pound tarpon at 5 in the morning. We'd been up all night drinkin' to go out at 3 when the tide was right. I was standing in the back of the boat struggling with my catch when I could swear I saw something massive pass by the transom in the inky water...I mean fuckin' massive. My tarpon was gone in an instant. That's happens a lot...sharks get 'em.
A couple hours later, the sun was comin-up and somebody a couple hundred yards away started shouting "It's old hitler...look at that fuckin shark...it's old hitler." I know he got my tarpon too.
I have a couple big Penn reels, heavy wire on 100 pound test...gonna head up on Sunday and try to hook that MFer before he dies of old age.
They hook her at 11 minutes and bring her up at 21 minutes:
Here's a pregnant girl over 1200 pounds...would be like fuckin' a midget for old hitler!
UnderwaterTimes.com | Report: World-Record Pregnant Hammerhead Caught Off Florida was Carrying World-Record 55 Pups
Old Hitler is a 20+ foot great hammerhead that has been suckin' down 100+ pound tarpon like french fries in the pass when they're hooked by anglers. The beast is SO huge, everybody just stops whatever they're doing and floats over to gawk...has to be well over 2,000 pounds. Some guys hooked it about a decade ago. It took them straight out to sea for 7 straight hours - never changing speed or changing course. Finally, they got skeered and cut the line when weather came up and they were 20 miles out in a little flats boat.
It was probably 15 years ago - I had hooked about a 120 pound tarpon at 5 in the morning. We'd been up all night drinkin' to go out at 3 when the tide was right. I was standing in the back of the boat struggling with my catch when I could swear I saw something massive pass by the transom in the inky water...I mean fuckin' massive. My tarpon was gone in an instant. That's happens a lot...sharks get 'em.
A couple hours later, the sun was comin-up and somebody a couple hundred yards away started shouting "It's old hitler...look at that fuckin shark...it's old hitler." I know he got my tarpon too.
I have a couple big Penn reels, heavy wire on 100 pound test...gonna head up on Sunday and try to hook that MFer before he dies of old age.
They hook her at 11 minutes and bring her up at 21 minutes:
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