From Fox News: A Florida fisherman changed his luck recently in a big way.
Captain Jose Rodriguez Jr. of Cudjoe Key, Florida, takes clients out four to five times a week on a Florida Keys fishing charter to reel in trophy fish.
But he’d never come close to catching a monster 500-pound swordfish.
On Feb. 18, Rodriguez, along with a Pennsylvania family, landed a giant 480-pound swordfish, one of the largest of its kind caught in the Keys in recent years.
The report explains that a couple from Pennsylvania had chartered the boat for a fishing trip to celebrate their son’s high school graduation.
The fish was so large, it took about 5 hours to control it before they could get it into the boat. They had no way to store a fish that large, so they had to simply lay it in the boat and cover it with ice bags and towels.
After filleting the fish, they ended up with over 200 pounds of meat.
The Pennsylvania family took about 20-30 pounds of meat, and donated the rest to the people of the town.
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