(BILOXI, Miss.) - Seven recreational fishermen have landed a mako shark believed to be about 600 pounds.
They were fishing 85 miles out from Biloxi in Gulf of Mexico.
The Sun Herald reports 45-year-old Tim King of Ocean Springs hooked the monster shark Sunday, while aboard Kevin Higgenbotham's 36-foot boat Finatic.
A crew of seven men fought the shark for about three hours before landing it.
They got it aboard with help from a crane on an oil rig.
Higgenbotham of Biloxi said they didn't know what they had hooked until the nearly 12-foot shark came completely out of the water 10 feet from the boat.
Information from: The Sun Herald, http://www.sunherald.com
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