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Topic: World Record Mako Arrowed
Posted By: Chris Farris
Subject: World Record Mako Arrowed
Date Posted: October/03/2014 at 10:49
http://www.lsonews.com/jaws-bow-texas-angler-arrows-809-5-pound-world-record-mako/ - http://www.lsonews.com/jaws-bow-texas-angler-arrows-809-5-pound-world-record-mako/
 
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Jeff Thomason has made several trips from his Weatherford home to the waters off Huntington Beach, California in search of one of the ultimate prizes in bow fishing — a big mako shark.

He wasn’t prepared for just how big the mako would turn out to be.

“We are out there in the middle of the deep blue,” Thomason, who hosts the hunting show, http://predatorpursuit.com/ -

“They’ve got to be about three feet from the boat to get the arrow to stick, so we threw a fish on a line and teased him to the boat,” Thomason said. “I try and shoot for the top of the back. As soon as the arrow hit, all hell broke loose. We freaked out because I spined him and we thought he might sink.”

The crew got the boat in gear and actually had the shark landed within 15 minutes, but it took much longer to secure the fish to the back of the boat.

“He was so big. We had five of us on the boat and it took all of us doing everything we could to get him in with the pulley system,” he said. “It took another 15 minutes just to get him on the swim step.”

Once the shark was secure, it was a race back to the shore.

“There is a certified weigh station in Los Angeles, so we had someone bring a boat trailer and we loaded him just like a boat. We threw a tarp over him because he was already attracting a crowd. It was pandemonium at the dock.”

Once at the scales, the big make went 809.5 pounds and stretched the tape to 11 feet from nose to tail, besting the old world record by about 300 pounds.

Thomason said 400 pounds of the meat was donated to a homeless shelter in Los Angeles.



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Posted By: muleycrazy
Date Posted: March/23/2015 at 20:50
WOW!!!! Shocked


Posted By: DCAMM94
Date Posted: March/24/2015 at 09:18
very cool.  Looks like he's shooting a vectrix, too.  My backup bow currently.


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Posted By: bugsNbows
Date Posted: March/24/2015 at 10:40
Nasty looking choppers on that big Mako.


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Posted By: randyjohnson
Date Posted: August/11/2015 at 06:40
Wow ! Congrat Mako!


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