New Mass State Record Porbeagle 455Lbs
 

Well,

Four friends and myself landed a new Mass state record Porbeagle on Sunday east of the bank. We were on my friend Mike Evenson's (Nautica Sportfishing Charters) boat. Fish took 3 hours 40 minutes to land.

It was a beautiful day that started off with sinking stomachs as we broke off a small giant on a 130 that parted the mono about 50 feet from the boat, 15 feet from the bar:( :( ........decided to go east for some cod and haddock....put out a chum bucket and one shark rod for something to do while bottom fishing. After just 2 haddock I was reeling in a double header dogfish:doh: and the porbeagle was following them up and made a pass by about 4 feet from the boat. About 15 minutes later the fish found our bait. I set the hook and game on. Had a slow ride in from 30 miles out of Scituate as after trying 3 time couldn't get it over the rail on the 25 Grady.

We have to thank Greg Sears and Tom King down in the harbor who made things happen late in the day to find a truck and scale to get it weighed on a short notice.....for without a weight would just be supper. It was quite a scene. Also had John Chisholm from the DMF there as witness to the weighing, he took the stomack contents to work to examine such a large female.

Was also nice to get her on a standup rod that I wrapped last fall after the season was over, it performed nicely.

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One week earlier and you guy's could've been splitting $5k.

Holy $%#@&*!
 

I don't even know what to say! OK here's a shot....NICE FISH & CONGRATS!:kewl: :claps: :jump1: :cheers:

Nice job thats a heck of a fish !!!

I heard one was getting towed in... WTG Beamie

congrats beamie, nice one

Nice fish Jon :btu:

Congrats Beamie - Nice Fish!

congrats on the catch....

Nice freakin work!!! Thats awesome!

Nice fish. Congrads on the state record.

Awesome shark!!! That is an amazing catch and to do it on stand up makes it that much better. What an accomplishment.Congrats!:bgi:

Very nice!!!;) :bl: :btu:

real nice fish..congrats
just curious..what did it weigh?

Congrats guys, one heck of a job, especially on stand-up gear. That is one chunky fish.

Congrats, very nice fish. If NMFS gets their way that record will stand for a long long time. In case anyone missed it the proposed HMS regs will make it illegal to keep a porbeagle! :(

awesome!! congrats!

Awesome!!! What was the old record?

indeed a nice catch

Congrats! Thats one hell of a porbeagle!

Congrats Beamie, You guys are the talk of the town, great team effort!!

Great catch, Congrats!