Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A pair of Connecticut anglers may have broken a state record when they reeled in a 16-foot thresher shark they estimated to weigh about 700 pounds.
Ed Lovely and Moe Giovanni said they were out on the Long Island Sound in Lovely's 16.5-foot boat last week when they hooked something big.
"I was hand feeding the line out, I got down to 45 or 50 feet and boom, I tell Moe boom something just hit and -- bang, zoom -- it started spooling us," Lovely told WTIC-TV.
The men ended up struggling with the thresher shark for six hours. The men said they took turns wearing the fishing belt and holding the rod.
"You need to have teamwork getting a fish like that because one guy has to drive the boat while the other guy's got to reel and tell him which way it's going and starboard side, port side, and so for those hours we were just going back and forth," Giovanni said.
