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Fri 06 Jun 2009Half-ton shark caught off Clare coast
A SWISS pensioner has brought ashore what he believes to be the largest ever fish caught by a rod and line in Irish and British waters off the Co Clare coast.
In what he yesterday described as “the fight of my life” in landing the sixgill shark weighing almost half a ton, Joe Waldis (70) said: “I still can’t believe it. When I go to sleep at night, I still can’t believe it. It was the fight of my life.”
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