Grindtv.com First Reported. There are fish tales, and there are fish tails. This tale involves a common thresher shark, caught recently off Florida, which boasted a tail fin so long that it boosted the predator’s overall length to about 20 feet. Common thresher sharks are sometimes referred to as long-tailed thresher sharks, but even so, this shark’s tail seemed to resemble the rib bone of a whale.
“Normally a thresher’s tail is about as long as its body, but you’re right, this one had an abnormally long tail,” said Mark “the Shark” Quartiano, a popular but controversial fishing guide based in Miami.
The guide estimated the length of the tail at perhaps 13 feet. It’s the largest thresher shark he has encountered, and he claims to have caught hundreds of them. It was reeled in by a female angler, after a two-hour battle, from a depth of 590 feet.
The thresher was not weighed before it was processed for the charter group, but Mark the Shark estimated the weight at between 700 and 750 pounds.
For the sake of comparison, the International Game Fish Association lists a 767-pound thresher, caught in 1983 off New Zealand, as the all-tackle world record.
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