When Walter Maxwell hooked into a giant tiger shark from a South Carolina pier in 1964, onlookers were sure he'd lose the ...

Jimmy Kneipp caught a record-breaking 759-pound great white shark off the New Jersey coast in 1988. The catch took place ...

The largest sharks of many of the biggest species, such as tiger sharks and great whites, play an oversized role in healthy oceans, but they are often the most affected by fishing. The big sharks ...

Fishing for sharks has become complicated, though, and harvesting big sharks is not as acceptable now as it was in the 20th century. Shark stocks around the world have been overfished thanks, in part, ...

A 21-year-old man learned that the hard way over the weekend when he was bit in the leg by a sandbar shark on a Nantucket ...

The crew was fishing 100 miles off of the coast of New Jersey in an area known as Hudson Canyon. It took the crew a little over an hour to reel in the shark and hour and a half to get him into the ...

Michalove explained to BNQT that he was hoping to “start small and work our way up,” but 10 minutes into fishing the big shark bit. “It took literally every ounce of energy for her to hang ...

This story, “Big-Game Fishing’s Greatest Catch,” appeared in the April 1984 issue of Outdoor Life.Maxwell’s 1964 tiger shark remains tied for the all-tackle world-record (with a shark caught off the ...

The largest sharks of many of the biggest species, such as tiger sharks and great whites, play an oversized role in healthy oceans, but they are often the most affected by fishing. The big sharks ...