Later on, Elliott found out their catch was a big-scale pomfret.Īccording to the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, the pomfret weighed in at 26 pounds, 11.4 ounces, beating the International Game Fish Association World Record set in 2004. SPORTS NEWSLETTER: Sign up to get the latest news and features sent directly to your inbox Whatever it was, they put it in their boat and made the nearly three-hour trip back to shore. "We were dropping squid about 2,000 feet down, and we didn't realize we had a fish on (the line)," Jeremiah Elliott, told FOX News.Įlliott was on the trip with his brother and two other friends.īut after they brought up the catch, they didn't know what kind of fish it was. ![]() The four fishermen set out off the coast of Morehead, North Carolina and headed about 60 miles from the shoreline. During an outing in which they hoped to nab some swordfish, a group of fishing buddies instead caught something rare.
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