Down Memory Lane…Tuna Giants put Fish Hoek Bay on the Map

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The biggest Tuna ever caught in African waters made it into the Guiness Book of Records with a landing weight of 845lb according to official measurers and weighmaster and fish buyers. The following day it was weighed again and officially recorded as 1047lb. The logistics of chanding the figure recorded was deemed to be too onerous so the entry into the Guiness Book of Records stood.

Mention Brian Cohen’s name and anybody who fishes Tuna will probably know who he is. For he is the man that in the early 1970s got, and has kept, the Africa IGFA (International Game Fish Association) record for the biggest Bluefin Tuna ever caught – all 1047 lb of it. He has since gone on to publish a book.

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