Over Memorial Day weekend, a Washington state man caught a roughly 7-foot halibut in the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the northwestern part of the state. But Tom Hellinger’s impressive catch came with one big issue: he was unable to find a scale big enough to document the fish’s exact weight. This means Hellinger will never know if his catch, which he told Fox 13 was “bigger than a folding table,” broke the state’s 288-pound Pacific halibut record set in the late 1980s. “We tried to find a hanging scale to weigh it on,” Hellinger told the news station, though he was unsuccessful. But that was something way, way bigger,” he said.

Source: Fox News June 06, 2018 17:26 UTC