An angler
off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, last week landed a 430-pound yellowfin tuna that
might have become a new world record if it had been weighed on official IGFA
scales.
Robert Ross,
a local resident, caught the massive fish on a trip out of the remote Pisces
Collection Lodge, on the Sea of Cortez. Ross fought the fish for a full two
hours before landing it.
The lodge
has not yet opened officially and does not yet have a certified scale, or cold
storage. Nonetheless, the fish was weighed on a butcher’s scale at a nearby ranch
where it registered an impressive 430lbs.
Although Ross
suspected it may have been a record, he told Pisces Sportfishing general manager,
Tracy Ehrenberg, that he had little choice but to fillet the tuna after
weighing it. She responded by saying 'You just cut up your world record!”
Ross
promised to call her next time before cutting anything up.
The
International Game Fish Association lists as the all-tackle world record a
427-pound yellowfin tuna also caught off Cabo San Lucas, in 2012.