Almost a year ago I posted a thread about catching a
50kg amberjack. I remember how Terry Mass added the
story as a Noatble catch under IBRC since the world
record there is 73kg.
To celebrate this the 1 year now(December 12th, 2006)
since Marc shot his famous 50kg IUSA world record
amberjack, i have uploaded the video to youtube. You
can also find below the story that was posted in
regards to the catch. It would interesting to read the
recapture the sotry before rwatching the movie.
The link is:
YouTube - IUSA World Record Amberjack 50 kg
The story:
Tuesday the 12th of December, 2006 was a day that I am
sure that I will cherishfor the rest my life. Marc and
I have been working on a new documentary for almost a
month, and so far the largest fish landed on video was
a 17 kg king fish. On Tuesday the 12th of December
2006, Marc, Sam, and I met in Kfirabidaa at 11am and
the sea was flat with great visibility. As Marc and I
hit the waters, we swam for 15 minutes before taking
our first dive at 16 meters, followed by a second dive
at 18.5 meters. As we started taking our third dive
and the film started rolling, I noticed Marc Making a
quick turn and started extending his speargun, so I
followed him slowly and to my disbelief I noticed a
very large amberjack swimming only 7 meters below us
and moving directly towards Marc. I continued to film
without making a single movement and noticed through
the LCD screen that the amberjack was approaching Marc
closer and closer. At a certain point, I thought that
marc should have gone for the shot but instead, and
since he was very excited, he decided to wait a little
bit more and aim better. 2 seconds later Marc went for
his shot while being only 1 meter away from the
amberjack and bam the shaft went directly into top of
the amberjacks gill plate few cm’s below the
amberjacks eye, just on the yellow line. At this
moment the amberjack froze for a second and started
swimming away slowly and then madly started opening
his gills left and right. At that moment I recalled
another 50-60 kg amberjack that I shot in Monsef last
month, and I could still recall how it opened its
gills for the shaft to fall off. I was worried that
the same thing could happen again and started swimming
towards it to shoot more movies just in case the
amberjack got loose. As I started moving closer
towards it, the amberjack started swimming away and
few seconds later I started ascending to see Marc
swimming very fast since the Amberjack has taken the
whole 50 meters of line and there was nothing we can
do but to swim behind it. The first thing I told Marc
when I reached the surface that it was a great shot,
and Marc replied yes, but it will get loose! We
continued swimming for around 30 minutes behind the
amberjack and at a certain moment Mark slapped his
hand on the water and told me that the amberjack has
gotten loose. Oh my god I said, and seconds later he
felt the pull once again and we kept swimming behind
it until it finally got tired and marc started pulling
the line towards him very slowly. 2 or 3 minutes
later, while still filming Marc succeeded in bringing
the Amberjack to the surface since we didn’t have a
spare speargun to go for a killer shot. I gave Marc my
knife and he swam slowly from behind it and jumped
above the water to stab the knife as deep as possible
in its head and started shouting in celebration. Oh my
god, what we thought could be 30-40 kg amberjack
turned out to be a monster and we started celebrating
in disbelief.
Later we realized that the shaft went only 6 or 7cm
deep into its gill plate, and luckily, the single
flopper opened and being very patient with the
amberjack paid off and the flopper didn’t break. Few
minutes later, I embraced the amberjack and decided to
surf on it to shore. It took us almost 1 hour to
return back and when we returned we saw our friend Sam
waiting for us in disbelief. It took the three of us
to pull it out of the water and we started taking
pictures with it. We went to Mina to weigh it. When we
put it on the scale, we realized that it was a 50kg
amberjack. We went to my place, took a shower, put on
the firehouse, ordered dinner, and watched the movie
6-8 times. It was one of these rare days in ones
life when pure luck and perfect conditions all meet
together.
Best regards,
Dia Captan