Angler’s unusual catches include a bizarre, world-record fish

Angler’s unusual catches include a bizarre, world-record fish

Source: usatoday

9/9/2021

On a day spent bottom fishing with Capt. Hiroki Toma and a friend off the North Carolina coast, Dr. Bob Timson came out on top when it came to unusual catches, and one of them turned out to be a world record—by a pretty large margin.

While the other anglers reeled in a few grouper in a spot offshore from Cape Fear Inlet, Timson landed a greater soapfish and a spotted scorpionfish, but it was a bizarre and colorful fish, thought at first to be a parrotfish, that got Timson’s attention, as reported by Carolina Sportsman.

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