Two giant sharks, which together weigh more than the entire Munster pack which started last weekend’s Pro12 final, have been caught off the Clare coast. Amazingly, these massive six-gill sharks were caught on the same day by the same angler using just a line and reel. The sharks, which together weighed 2,600lbs or 185 stone, would both have broken the Irish record if they were killed, brought ashore and officially weighed on scales – but both sharks were released after their capture…
Irish Examiner, 31/05/17. Read the full article ‘Angler catches two giant sharks off Clare coast‘.