Capt. Andy Whitebread of Fort Myers captured a 13 foot, 4 inch, 750-pound hammerhead on May 10th. Whitbread used an estimated 12- to 15-pound live crevalle jack as bait and caught the fish on 80-pound class tackle.
The current world record is 620 pounds. That hammerhead was caught in Freeport, Texas in 1976.
Whitebread managed the feat with the assistance of captains Owen Osborne of Fort Myers and James Holland of LaBelle.
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