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Description: Be amazed by the biggest fish ever Caught! SUBSCRIBE for the latest videos: goo.gl/7xzjzR #18. Colleen Harlow – Lemon Shark Lemon Sharks typically mature to be as long as 11 feet and as heavy as 220 pounds. #17. Andrea Pelligrini – Silvertip Shark The silvertip shark is another species of shark which attains a maximum length of 10 feet and an average weight of 202 pounds. On November 11, 2016, a fisher by the name of Andrea Pelligrini caught a silvertip shark that weighed 410 pounds in Latham Island, Tanzania. #16. Thomas Nielsen – Atlantic Halibut The Atlantic Halibut is the largest fish in the world. It typically weighs up to 15 feet long and can weigh up to 700 pounds. Although many fishing enthusiasts have tried, none have been able to capture a really big one. #15. Guy Yocom – Yellowfin Tuna The yellowfin tuna is a large fish that typically weighs 400 pounds. Although a 990 pound individual has been observed before, the largest yellowfin tuna ever captured weighed 427 pounds. #14. Joe Seidel - Blue Shark This catch happened on Montauk point, New York on August 9, 2001. The fisher in question was a man known as Joe Seidel. It took him just 2 hours and 53 minutes to catch this blue shark. #13. Lynn Joyner – Atlantic Goliath Grouper When a fish has a common name like Goliath, you know its size is nothing to joke about. Also known as the jewfish, this fish can be found in places like Florida, Mexico, and Brazil. In fact the largest ever grouper was caught off the coast of Fernandina Beach, Florida. #12. Dianne North – Bigeye Thresher Shark Like other thresher sharks, half of the bigeye thresher’s total length consists of the elongated upper lobe of the tail fin. As you may have guessed from the name, they have quite big eyes too. #11. Louis Marron - Broadbill Swordfish Although swordfish are sometimes confused with the black marlin, their bills are much longer. So much so that they are sometimes called broadbill fish in certain countries. #10. Luke Sweeney – Shortfin Mako Shark The shortfin mako shark is also known as the blue pointer. It is the largest mackerel shark in the world and typically grows to lengths of 13 feet. It’s an endangered species. #9. Bucky Dennis - Hammerhead shark Hammerhead sharks are some of the most unique-looking and instantly recognizable fishes in the sea. Due to the weird placement of their eyes they sometimes have blind spots and have to make up for that by constantly moving their heads. Sometimes, fishers take advantage of these blind spots to capture hammerhead sharks. #8. Clemens Rump – Bluntnose Sixgill Shark The bluntnose sixgill shark is sometimes called the cow shark. It has six rows of saw-like teeth on its lower jaw and averages 1100 pounds in weight. #7. Jay de Beaubien – Pacific Blue Marlin Some people consider the Atlantic Blue Marlin and the Indo-Pacific Blue Marlin as the same species. However, they are taxonomically distinct from one another. #6. Paulo Amorim - Atlantic Blue Marlin On 29 February, 1992, a fisherman by the name Paulo Amorim caught a 1402-pound Atlantic Blue Marlin. The hunt took place off the coast of Vitoria, Brazil with Amorim using a mold craft lure. The fish was 13.5 feet long. #5. Ken Fraser - Atlantic Bluefin Tuna For individual members of this species exceeding 330 pounds in weight, they are referred to as giant bluefin tunas. As the name suggests, this large fish is typically found in the Atlantic ocean and sometimes in the Mediterranean sea. #4. Alfred Glassell Junior – Black Marlin The Black Marlin is a large fish with a long bill. Observers sometimes mistake them for swordfish. #3. Terje Nordvedt – Greenland Shark Using herring as bait, a Scandinavian fisherman known as Terje Nordvedt caught a 1708-pound Greenland shark. This was on the 18th of October, 1987. #2. Kevin James Clapson – Tiger Shark Tiger sharks are so named because before they mature, they typically have spots or stripes on their body, like a tiger. The second-largest fish ever caught was a tiger shark and it was caught by man named Kevin James Clapson in 2004. This catch broke the record for largest tiger shark ever caught by only 5 pounds. This 1,785 pound beast was caught on March 28, 2004 while Clapson was fishing off Ulladulla, Australia. #1. Alfred Dean – Great White Shark Predictably, the largest fish ever caught was a great white shark. This took place all the way on the 21st of April 1959 and the record has not been broken since. The fisherman was known as Alfred Dean and the hunt took place in Ceduna, Australia. As bait, dean used a Porpoise, one of the favorite meals of great white sharks. It took him and his team just 70 minutes to catch the creature, which weighed 2,664 pounds. He wrote his name on the shark’s body, along with its weight. Do you like to go fishing? What is your biggest catch?