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This potential record amberjack was fileted before it could weighed.(Esteban Romero photo)
By Outfitters Newswire
GrindTV
The powerful amberjack was so massive it might have been a world record. But the fisherman who battled the monstrous fish, and the Mexican crew that helped deliver it from the Sea of Cortez to a remote Baja California beach, were not thinking about records.
They marveled at the size of the fish and hefted their great prize as if to see if it could, indeed, be hefted — then carved it up for fish tacos and filets for the grill.
The International Game Fish Association lists a 156-pound amberjack caught off Japan in 2010 as the...