Don’t ask us why, but we are always fascinated by humongous fish stories. Our latest tale comes from a couple of buddies who were fishing off the Louisiana coast when all of sudden, badda-boom, badda-bing, they’ve got a 350-pound grouper sitting in their boat.
JJ: “We were fishing in about 400 feet of water.”
Joey: “It was the biggest fish I’d ever seen.”
JJ: “We put the bait down on the bottom and it was down there about a half an hour before it got bit. The bait was a big live hard tail. When we hooked up, I thought I had hit the bottom. Then I felt the big head shake.”
JJ: “I put myself in a harness and just had to lay back and fight. It was about a 15 or 20 minute fight.
To be specific, it’s a Warsaw grouper that weighed a stout 359.1 pounds and on Monday afternoon the fishy got slaughtered in an auto shop.
He cleaned the fish late Monday afternoon outside his father’s auto repair shop in Thibodaux. The first filet he cut weighed 53 pounds. “We’ll split it up,” he said. “I’ll make some phone calls and try to get rid of it fresh. The rest, we’ll vacuum pack it and cook it later.”
Hey, if you’re in need of people to take some of that off your hands then we’ve got a suggestion for you. Send it on over to John Madden. Thanksgiving is right around the corner and he’s always looking for new meats to combine with his nuclear turducken concoction.
Links:
[WISTV.com]: Men catch 350-pound grouper off Louisiana coast
[FOX19.com]: 350 Pound Fish Caught In Louisiana