POSTED: 6:13 am EDT October 15, 2007
UPDATED: 6:22 am EDT October 15, 2007
DESTIN, Fla. -- Six friends went to a fishing tournament looking to catch some grouper. They caught an 844-pound mako shark instead.
Adlee Bruner and five others headed out into the Gulf of Mexico Saturday on a charter boat and came back with a record catch for the decades-old Destin Fishing Rodeo. It took more than an hour to bring the 11-foot shark in.
After it was gutted, the mako still weighed 638 pounds and broke the tournament's previous shark division record by 338 pounds.
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