POIPU, HAWAII (KHON2) – A teenager on Kauai may have just taken the fish of your life on Wednesday from Poipu.
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Taelin Sugimura spears since he was a boy, but the 18-year-old never expected to catch an Ulua that weighs more than 130 pounds.
It certainly looks enormous in the photos taken on the land, but Sugimura said that the 134 pound Ulua looked even bigger when he saw it in the water.
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“Everything just went like, everything went slow motion and I just saw it swimming in front of me and then it started to swim away and then I called it back to me,” he said.
Sugimura shot the Ulua in the head with his Speargun, but it was not a kill shot and the fish left – Sugimura weighs only 120 pounds and the Oceanic beast began to drag him to the depths.
“When my friend grabbed my heel when I flew past him, it delayed a bit,” he said.
The Ulua then turned around and swam back to Sugimura, which gave him and his two colleagues enough time to deliver the last blow.
“He got the second shot and we started screaming,” said Sugimura's friend, Bing Pellin. “We had to get all three of our spear guns in that thing before it was beaten. We all touched headshots, but we could not find the brain until the last shot, luckily. “
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Fortunately, a skipper helped the fisherman to bring their migration to the coast, experts said that Ulua is rarely seen this size.
“It has always been rare to catch what is actually called a 100-ponder. So every fish above 100 pounds. And that is really the goal of many of the Ulua fishermen is somewhere in their lives to become a member of that club, “said Uh Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Associate Research Professor Erik Franklin. catches.
Sugimura – a third generation of diver himself – and his friends said it will be a fishing story that they tell for years and this is true.
“I try to explain how beautiful this fish looked when he swim at us. It would look like it had so much appearance and it was just swimming with such an elegance, “said Pellin.
“I am really happy with that and now I don't have to look for it anymore,” Sugimura said, “I'm going to get it Gyotaku'd, what is the old Japanese way to look at fish before social media, I think, I think And you just paint the fish and put it on top of rice paper.
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The world and state record for the weighing of the Larges Ulua was 191 pounds – which Beast was caught in 1980 between Maui and Lanai.
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