Source IGFA: Kiwi angler Kevin Baker potentially set the new All-Tackle record for Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis), with a 352.5 kg (777 lb 1 oz) fish he caught on September 14, 2013, while fishing off the coast of Greymouth, New Zealand. This massive tuna hit during the final hours of Baker’s multiple day fishing trip aboard the Cova Rose, captained by Lance Goodhew. After marking fish on the sounder, Baker fed a fresh hoki back through the chum line, and almost instantly came tight on the big fish. With the trip nearly it’s end, Baker was pressed for time and was forced to put serious tension on the fish – at times bumping the drag on his Shimano 130W up to 37 kg (80 lb) during the intense thirty minute fight. Baker and the crew were prepared to tag the fish like the several they’d already stuck, but once it was brought, the decision was made to take the fish, as it was the biggest specimen any of them had ever seen. Tipping the scales at 352.5 kg (777 lb 1 oz), Baker’s fish surpasses
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