Monster Of Deep Surfaces at Oropi

[Reporter]

It's the equivalent of 2680 cans of tuna, much taller than your average human, weighs as much as a cow and is a world record.
It's a 268kg Pacific bluefin tuna - 2.7m in length - and it nearly dragged a Nelson angler overboard when he landed it off the West Coast recently.

Now Western Bay taxidermist Kevin Flutey has the challenge of creating a fibreglass double of the mighty fish that will eventually adorn the walls of a Far North game fishing club.

The whopper was landed by business broker Michael Hayes on August 18 and it took four other men to help him haul it aboard. He was fishing about 50km west of Greymouth using a 60kg breaking strain line, which makes the catch a new International Game Fishing Association record.



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