Donna Pascoe, 56, hooked the 411.6kg (64 stone) Pacific bluefin tuna (twice the size of a baby elephant) using a 60lb line near the Three Kings Islands off Cape Reinga of New Zealand. But despite her catch having an estimated market value of around $2.02 million with enough meat on it to make 4,116 tuna sandwiches, Donna has decided to stuff it and hang it on her wall.
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The experienced angler first suspected something fishy was going on when her line began to tug.
'The line was peeling out like it was attached to a freight train,' said Donna, of Auckland, New Zealand. 'As usual, I was pretty nervous that I might get spooled. Thankfully, the fish stopped running and I was able to get a bit of line back in.'
Unaware of the scale of her catch, Donna and her four-strong team battled for over four hours to drag the gargantuan 8ft 9' tuna onto her boat.
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Donna said: 'It was a very stubborn fish, but I'm stubborn as well.'
Culled from DailyMail.co.uk
'The line was peeling out like it was attached to a freight train,' said Donna, of Auckland, New Zealand. 'As usual, I was pretty nervous that I might get spooled. Thankfully, the fish stopped running and I was able to get a bit of line back in.'
Unaware of the scale of her catch, Donna and her four-strong team battled for over four hours to drag the gargantuan 8ft 9' tuna onto her boat.
Culled from DailyMail.co.uk
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