Mako shark makes a 5,000-mile sprint to South Florida in just 142 days

Miami Herald ^ | 24 Feb 2017 | JENNY STALETOVICH

[bar sin·is·ter]

Give... me... my... f***ing... money!

[Cementjungle]

Mary Lee, the shark with a Facebook page, sometimes posts a map of her travels:

[Blue Highway]

I didn’t know stingrays and makos were the same thing

[Carthego delenda est]

[Bob434]

the funny part is that the starfish it was racing beat the shark to florida

[mountn man]

The Mako Shark was a special edition Corvette

[mountn man]

these sharks not only Makos but bulls and others,feed on millions of mullet...

[Cementjungle]

LOL

[DUMBGRUNT]

From your link: It did not qualify as an IGFA record, because the fish was fought out of the rod holder.

What does this mean??

[DUMBGRUNT]

Business in the front, party in the back. ???

[Capt. Tom]

From your link: It did not qualify as an IGFA record, because the fish was fought out of the rod holder.
What does this mean??

The IGFA has many rules to qualify you for a record catch.

For example: Only one angler can fight the fish- the rod, reel and line must meet certain requirements- the wire leader has to conform to certain lengths, and the fish must be fought by one angler attached to the rod and reel and not from a rod holder permanently mounted in the boat gunnel, and many more requirements, including how you boat the fish.

They were out tuna fishing and would fight big tuna with the rod in a holder mounted on the side of the boat.
The IGFA would disqualify any catch made that way on any species of fish. -Tom

[rodguy911]

wrong mullet, but sharks are equal opportunity predators they would probably eat him as well....