New Zealand Fisherman Catches New World Record Colossal Squid

Not to be left out in all the Giant Squid news, the Colossal Squid makes its appearance with a new world record. The first ever adult colossal squid to be landed intact, weighted in at an estimated 450kg (990 lbs) and 10m (33 ft) long, and over two hours to land. The Colossal Squid is the largest known squid family in the world normally found in deep Antartic waters where the men were fishing for Patagonian Toothfish when the squid, also feeding on the toothfish, was caught. The fisherman quickly realized the importance of such a catch and took great care to make sure the specimen was in good condition freezing it below deck.

One expert said calamari rings made from it would be the size of tractor tires.

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This bad boy was caught in Montreal last year. It was 4ft long( 48 inches) and has a 23 inch girth. Weight was around 30lbs. Put it back to be caught again. Caught on a Williams Wobbler.

-Greg

Grabbing A Shark With Your Bare Hands

I originally wanted to post this video along side with the drunken shark wrestler, but youtube took its sweet time in getting the video processed. Anyway, here is a quick video of Clive catching a small shark while shore fishing in the British Virgin Islands, no word on how much Tang and Bacardi 151 he was drinking though.

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Drunk Fisherman Catches Shark by Hand

Off Australias southern coast near Louth Bay, well known for sharks, and the location of live shark action shots in the 1975 movie Jaws, a “vodka-fueled” local fisherman wrestled with a shark and won. Philip Kerkhof, 41, caught a bronze whaler shark, about 4 feet long, after he spotted it chasing squid lures. Philip said that he just snuck up behind the shark, went for the big grab, and was simply lucky (not to mention inebriated). It wasn’t until the next day that he actually realized the danger of his actions.

“It’s not something I’d recommend to do,” he said. “When I sobered up I thought about it and I said, ’I’m a bit of an idiot doing it’.”

Giant Squid Use Light Emitting Organs to Blind its Prey

Japanese scientists are learning more and more about these giant squid, this time they have released new footage showing a spectacular array of lights coming from the squid tentacles. These squid, once thought of as gentle creatures, show an increasingly aggressive predatory instinct. The films were taken at depths of 240m to 940m (790 to 3,080ft) and show the squid reaching speeds up to 2.5m (8ft) per second as they attacked the bait, engulfing it with all eight of their tentacles and blinding flashes. Other squid have already shown the ability to communicate by changing color, no doubt the giant squid are capable of the same.

via BBC

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Your Next Dream Rod Could Be Made From Vegetables?

A Scottish company CelluComp has come up with a new nanotech fiber known as Curran that performs better than conventional graphite fiber and carbon fiber. The new material is created using lower energy production methods and is made from a sustainable and renewable resource. Curran is a carrot-based material because the inventors said they were very common and could find large enough quantities to extract the nano fibers. The inventors also said that the same technique could be applied to other vegetables, such as turnips and parsnips.

CelluComp’s first product, a fly fishing rod, goes on sale next month and should prove to be a great step forward in fishing innovation. The new “Just Cast” rods are about 50% carrot, with carbon fiber making the rest, each made from about 2kg of the vegetable. But fishing isn’t the only industry they could be taking over, they are also planning to move on to making snowboards, car parts, even battleships from the carrot based materials.

via NanoWerk