Florida Fishermen Land 805-Pound Shark (Video)

One man from Florida caught an 11-foot-shark weighing 805 pounds that may just break the world record for land-based shark fishing for makos.

Last Tuesday night in Joey Polk of Milton, Florida wrestled with the monster mako shark and at times used almost 900 yards of fishing line from his reel.

The mako is the fastest of all sharks and can swim at speeds up to 60 miles per hour, and Polk said he now knows that is the truth.

“She was pulling line out of my reel at easily 60 miles and hour. We call that ‘smokin’ the drag’ round here,” said Polk who already holds one land-based shark fishing record.

“(The reel) has 60 pounds of drag on it, it’s amazing that these fish can pull it out,” Polk said, adding that a person can barely pull out the line by hand.

“When I saw it, I knew it was a big fish. I’ve been fishing since I was a little kid, but I thought it was maybe 700 pounds or so, then when we weighed it, it came in at 805! It was amazing,” said Polk.

Last year in Huntington Beach, Calif., an “unreal” 11-foot, 1,323.5-pound mako shark was reeled in by a Texas man.

Agencies/Canadajournal