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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A San Diego fisherman had quite a catch on Sunday when he angled in a massive swordfish that shattered a California record.
Luc Ofield, owner of Anglers Choice Tackle Store, caught the fish just half-an-hour before midnight after a more than four-hour effort to pull it in using a stand up rod and reel.
According to The Marlin Club in Shelter Island, who weighed the catch, the swordfish came in at a whopping 666.2 pounds — more than 100 pounds above the state record set just last year by another San Diego-area crew.
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“666.2 lbs weighed at the Marlin Club last night and it looks like this will take the new California State Record Swordfish!” the weigh station wrote in a post on Instagram on Monday. “Luc and Anglers Choice have been an amazing friend and supporter of the Marlin Club for many years and we are honored to weigh his record breaking fish.”