what's the biggest halibut fish ever caught...  and where, and by whom?
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hey there!\n\nI live in alaska and i know a man was in Homer, Alaska on vacation - think it was last year and he caught one that was over 500lbs. He sold it and made enough from the sale of meat to pay for his whole vacation. Don't remember his name but you could ask The Anchorage Daily News\n\ni caught a 176lb one before and it was small\n\nakfriend
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The Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as White Pointer, White Shark, White Death, or Amaletz, is an exceptionally large lamniform shark found in coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Reaching lengths of about 6 meters (20 feet) and weighing almost 2,000 kilograms (4,000 pounds), the Great White is the world's largest predatory fish. They are the only known surviving species of their genus, Carcharodon. The Great White Shark has a robust large conical-shaped snout. It has almost the same size upper and lower lobes on the tail fin (like most mackerel shark, but unlike most other sharks). It is pale to dark gray and has a white belly.
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One time I was in the Caribbean, and this little blow fish was following me around. He was swimming with me for a couple of dozen yards, when he decided to turn and start poking me right square in the mask. Well of course, this got me to start laughing... Not a good thing to do at 40 feet. So, I gently tried to push him away, but he kept on coming back and poking me square in the mask. For some reason this kept getting funnier and funnier, until I spotted a blue Parrot fish staring at us both. His front bucked teeth were so huge, all I could thing of was Austin Powers. That's all I need to see. I started laughing so hard, I spit out my mouthpiece, dropped my weights and shot to the surface hoping I wasn't going to drown from laughter. I had to call it a day after that. Luckily, my wife saw the whole thing, grabbed my weights and followed me up. She said I was peeing my suit as I ascended, I was laughing so hard.....
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commonly called the "Aligator Gar",  weighing 298 lbs, caught in White River, near DeValls Bluff, Ark.  \n\nContents of stomach included several loggerhead turtles, one rubber boot, and skeleton remains of a human skull.
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You're looking for the candiru fish.\n\nHere's an interesting article:\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/columns/010907.html
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Well, there are many fish known as Moonfish.\n\nIf you're referring to the huge species Mola mola, also known as "sunfish" (the one in this picture http://www.mumm.ac.be/Assets/Pages/Strandings/sunfish.JPG ), the maximum recorded weight is 2,300 kg!!\n\nCheck the reference at Fishbase, a comprehensive and well documented fish information site:\nhttp://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1732\n\nAnother large moonfish is Selene setapinnis (this one http://fishanatomy.net/webpages/fish/moonfish/Large/lookdown002.jpg ). \nFor this species, max recorded weight is 4,600 g. (species summary http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=378 ).\n\nAnd yet another large sunfish is Lampris guttatus, also known as "opah" (the one here http://konadeepsea.com/charters/photos/opah.jpg )\nthe max. recorded weight is 270 kg\n(reference http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1072 )\n\nHope this helps. Let me know if it's none of the abovementioned species (I'll check back).\nYou can use the scientific names to look for more reliable information :-)
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97# Ling from Horace Caldwell pier at Port Aransas using squid for bait. Prior to that was a 50# Drum out of Corpus Christi bay using shrimp. The Drum wasn't as much fun as the Ling, was kinda like dragging in a stump.
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i fish for largemouth bass crappie walleyes and white bass largest bass was master angler 12lb 11 0z...largest walleye was 14 lbs largest crappie was 1.25 lbs largest white bass was actually a striper weighed in at 17 lbs what a scrapper he was..i like to follow the gulls when the shad are running..drive my boat up to the gulls and throw in a white spinner blade....the action is fast and furious catching upwards of 100 white bass in a day....Milford lake Kansas
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Big Fish\nStand By Me
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With him died many of the details we'd like to know today about the famous catch, which is memorialized today in fishing displays and museums from Texas to Tokyo . \n\nhttp://www.mrlurebox.com/GeorgePerryBass.htm\n\nI don't know.
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When I was just a little girl with my snoopy fishing pole, I hooked a huge fish in the Allegheny river... I fought to bring it in for a good 10 minutes and when I finally got it ashore I saw that it was more than a foot and a half long! I was so excited about the big fish I caught and then my Dad said "Carp taste like crap" and threw it back...... I cried.
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I found a report regarding fishing in St. John's, Newfoundland.  I hope it helps.
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I was there two weeks ago and did the helifishing from the Station Township at El Questro.  Thoroughly recommend it - 16 barramundi and 4 catfish.  Plus awesome views, plus fighting off the crocs!  Awesome!!!  Obviously couldn;'t keep all the barra due to size limit.\n\nAnywhere on the Pentecost River is good fishing
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There is no evidence that Giant Squids have ever eaten people.\n\nThe largest one on record, that anyone has seen, is about 44 feet> However, a beak found within the stomach of a sperm whale was so large that it is believed the squid it came from would have had to be nearly 200 yards long.  It has not been determined if this came from a giant squid or another species that may be smaller, but have a larger beak.
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Common Name: Giant Squid\nScientific name: Architeuthis dux\n\n Size \nRecord breaker: Largest recorded giant squid was 18 meters long (59.5 feet).  Its mantle was 5 meters (16.4 feet).  It weighed 1 metric ton.\nThe average size of the giant squid is 6 to 13 meters (19.7 to 42.7 feet) That is total length.  The mantle would be about 1 to 2.5 meters (3.2 to 8 feet).  The average weight is estimated to be 50 to 300 kg (110 to 661 pounds)\n Where are they found?  \nSquid in the genus Architeuthi are found in:  northern Atlantic , from Labrador to the Gulf of Mexico; northern Norway to the Azores; northern Pacific from the Bering Sea to the Sea of Japan: southern Japan, Hawaii and California.  It is also found in the Southern Ocean.
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52 fish in 4 hours. I was fishing in canada at pine cove lodge on the french river. they were all large mouth base and it was close to 6pm.  we had a good fish fry that night and we shared with other people in the other cabins.
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Department of wildlife and fisheries is the way to go, but to really get a fell for the ponds stop the small bait shops in your area, ask the old guy behind the counter he will give you the best info. Seriously I grew up outside Boston and fished the South shore for years but when I moved out to central mass, I had no idea where to begin. I stopped at a little shop out on 122 I believe. And actually talked to the guy who wrote for the Telegram. Some of the best info I have received.