Monster Mahi Mahi
Seriously WTF? Someone has been feeding that dolly roids! It was caught by Dennis Braid landed this one in Panama...
Dennis Braid says;
Here's some info on the bull dorado. Last month I was in Panama shooting an episode of Best & Worst with Tred, our main focus was on tuna and marlin. We were making a pass along the edge of the reef trolling live bonitas when we hooked a dorado about 30 lbs. As I recall we caught a couple more a little smaller, then the rod goes off and just keeps going. At first I thought it was a billfish then it jumped and it was obvious it was a dodo. But it was so far out we couldn't tell how big it was. After a few minutes I started to think this is not the same size as the others, then it started taking more line. Geez this thing pulled and when it was not taking line it would just lay broadside making it very tough to gain line. When I got it about 30ft from the boat we could see it was a big fish and it really didn't want to come in the boat.
Gaffing the beast was something else, and it damn near killed the mate. I knew it was a big fish but didn't realise how big until the cameraman sent me the photos a couple of days ago. By the way the knee pads were for protection as the transom had no padding and was very sharp & painful on the knees. The whole catch will be shown on Tred's show sometime later this year, also will include lots of other species and some unbelieveable tuna feeding footage.
I taped the fish just in case my taxadermy guy had a mold close to the specs, unfortunatly I didn't get an official weight on the fish as I didn't think it was that big at the time, and then I recieved the photo the other day and thought damn it's bigger than I thought. Oh well there must be another one just like it still out there. Thanks for the many kind responses and also the funny one's.
Head width 18.5
Leangth to inside tail fork 62.25 in
Cheers,
DB.
MattMiller
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Bloody hell
that's the Grandaddy of all Mahi Mahi. I wonder how old it is? 5yrs, haha
Lucky Tim
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good excuse to leave the
good excuse to leave the FADS out there all year 'round.
Auslobster
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Monster!
We know how fast they grow and how short their lives are. Very high metabolisms (like tuna) so you can only imagine how much food a fish that size would have to eat. I would say that it's stomach contents would be very interesting! And a lot of us also know how berko they get when brought into a boat...unless they clubbed it before bringing it in, and they'd be mad if they didn't, all hell would've broken loose!
alfred
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I want to tangle with one of
I want to tangle with one of those!
petervb
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absolute monser. saw this on
absolute monser. saw this on a spearfishing fourm a few weeks back.
scotto
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jeezarz,
thats a monster dolly. that would have gone spastic when they bought it in.
gotta love the forehead on those bulls hey. it looks like it swam flat-knacker into a steel hull or something.
saltatrix
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Imagine that doin a big
Imagine that doin a big aerial into the back of your boat? Yichee corumba
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Faulkner Family
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that is an absolute hooter.
that is an absolute hooter. would have put up a great fight to the end.one to remember
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Dan L
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did he release it?
did he release it?