Monday, December 13, 2010

  Largest tuna ever caught: Michael Livingston sets world record

 SAN DIEGO, USA--Glendale Unified administrator Michael Livingston caught a 405-pound yellowfin tuna aboard Capt. Mike Lackey's 80-foot
sportfishing vessel, Vagabond , off Mexico - setting the new world record for the Largest tuna ever caugh with a rod and reel .

  Photo: Mike Livingston and the World's largest tuna caught with a rod and reel. Photo courtesy of Michael Livingston
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  More than 100 people crowded around the fishing hook scale at Point Loma Sport Fishing in San Diego to see the yellowfin tuna ? which measured 85 inches from nose to tail and 61 inches in girth ? hoisted into the air.

  Livingston said he spent 2 hours, 40 minutes playing the giant fish before reeling it in. His previous personal record was 100 pounds.

   The beast was finally subdued by a Penn International 30SW reel blueprinted by Cal Sheets, a custom rod made by Livingston himself, and a 100-foot topshot of 100-pound test monofilament over more than 700 yards of 100-pound test superbraid line, with a live sardine pinned on a 9/0 Owner Ringed Super Mutu hook.

  "It was my moment, my time," Livingston said. "I'm certainly not the best angler, but I had enough skill to reel this one in. It was just my day."

  Livingston told the San Diego Union-Tribune it was "fish of a lifetime."

   Livingston's previous big fish was a 100-pound yellowfin.

  The previous Guinness world record for the
Largest tuna ever caugh with a rod and reel was a 388-pound, 12-ounce yellowfin caught in 1977.   

  Guinness World Records listed Ken Niles (USA) as the world record holder for "Most species of fish caught on fly rod in one year"; he caught 85 different species of fish using a fly rod on in one year.

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  Monday, December 13, 2010

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