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Last summer, Stiller and three others caught the new state-record bull shark aboard Stiller’s boat while competing in a fishing tournament. Their shark weighed 494.5 pounds and put up an intense fight ...
A fishing team recently reeled in a large 494.5-pound bull shark at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo – taking home first place and a jackpot prize of $6,000.
A fishing crew in the Alabama deep sea fishing rodeo on a vessel named "The Orca" brought in a staggering bull shark weighing 494.5 lbs (224.3kg), breaking the Alabama state record of the last ...
For the second year in a row, anglers participating in the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo brought in an apparent state record shark. In the 2023 rodeo it was a 1,019-lb. tiger shark that broke a ...
A bull shark caught off the Alabama coast in early May would have smashed the state record had it not been caught on commercial gear. A photo of the shark hanging next to Capt. David Stiller, the ...
In Texas, a 515-pound bull shark sits atop the list and a fish weighing a little more than 180 pounds is the record-holder in Mississippi. Louisiana simply lists a 412-pound shark as its record ...
Alabama’s current state record bull shark weighed 448 pounds 4 ounces, and was caught in June 2015 by Jeff Moore of Birmingham. Bowyer’s nearly 500 pounder bull shark should easily outstrip Moore’s ...
The Florida record for bull sharks, set off Panama City in 1981, stands at 517.44 pounds. Hengel, 22, told Local 10 News that he released the shark rather than kill it for the sake of a potential ...
Bull sharks tend to be aggressive and live near shorelines, which has earned them fearsome reputations. One eight-foot-long female recently logged a record breaking 4,000-mile journey.
Bull Shark, 513 pounds, could be Texas record. 17y. After famously trading away draft picks, the Rams have a new core full of them. Los Angeles Rams. 13h Sarah Barshop ...
If certified as expected, it’ll shatter the previous record by more than 40 pounds. During the July 19-21 Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, Tommy Bowyer hooked the first-place 494.5-pound bull ...
No sightings are documented before the turn of the 20th century, but Shell and Gardner found two confirmed bull shark catches in the historical record: One in 1937, in Alton, Illinois, and another ...