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FLAGLER BEACH, Fla., Sept. 26 (UPI) -- A three-hour, "non-stop tug-of-war" between a Florida fisherman and a hammerhead shark ended when the angler reeled in the 550-pound shark.
"I'm still in shock at the size of this fish," angler Dan Ficochello told Orlando, Fla., television station WKMG. "I'll never catch one bigger than that. That's a catch of a lifetime."
Ficochello said he dropped a barracuda head to the bottom of the ocean floor about 300 yards offshore of Flagler Beach. Seated in his kayak, he was dragging his line back to the Central Florida beach when the 12 1/2-foot shark took the bait.
"My first thought was, 'What am I going to do with this?' Because it wasn't moving, there was no chance of a release. It was done. I had never seen a shark this big before in person," Ficochello said. "It was a non-stop tug-of-war. I was worn out after an hour."
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NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
Kate Upton was revealed as the cover model of the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue during Monday's taping of "Late Show" in New York.
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TEHRAN, Feb. 13 (UPI) --
The bomb attacks on Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia were the work of Israel itself, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 14 (UPI) --
The U.S. commercial valentine industry, which estimates 190 million valentines are sent each year, was created by one woman, historians say.
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