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Finally, someone didn’t let "the one that got away" get away


We not real big fans of fishin’ as a sport; after all, if that’s a sport then every 12-year-old kid sitting on his bed sucking down Dr. Peppers and playing his X-Box is an athlete. But we do enjoy getting out on the boat with rod in hand and partaking in a few adult beverages as a recreational activity. So, we were pretty impressed when we saw that a North Carolina man reeled in a largemouth bass that weighed, a state record, 15 pounds, 2 ounces. Of course, that excitement quickly faded when we read this.

David Ristig had the adventure of a lifetime last week when he wrestled and eventually conquered a 356-pound halibut out of the Gulf of Alaska! For a while, Ristig though he was fighting with a shark, but once the monster surfaced then Matt Flora, captain of the boat, knew that it wasn’t. And while we are totally impressed by this dude’s haul, we’re wondering if the Michael Vick protesters might have a problem with the captain’s methods of taming the wild fish.

After putting two gaffs into the halibut, it took three men to lift the 356-pound fish into the boat. Flora gave it a few Barry Bonds-like whacks with a baseball bat, knocking it dead.

Hey, it’s better than electrocution.

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