A large wahoo fish weighing nearly 120 kilos has been caught by fishermen in South Carolina.

Photos of the large fish have been posted to Fb on the South Carolina Wahoo Collection web page. The submit could be discovered right here.

They confirmed 5 males from the crew of the ship Reel Labor standing aspect by aspect holding the fish. Out of doors Life reported the animal weighed in at 119.3 kilos and measured nearly seven toes in size.

Reel Labor and their captain Mark Pate caught the fish about 70 miles off the coast of South Carolina.

"That fish confirmed us what a 120-pound wahoo can do," Pate instructed Out of doors Life. "One which massive is an entire completely different class of wahoo, and its run [was] unimaginable to consider until you [witnessed] it.

"Its first run was 600 yards, and there was nothing to do however watch the reel scream and the road evaporate off the spool prefer it was tied to a Ford pickup in a drag race. The reel truly bought scorching from that run ... It rocketed right into a run like we would by no means seen beforehand—and we have been chasing wahoo for a very long time."

Wahoo are in style with leisure fishermen. They reside within the tropical and subtropical oceans internationally, plus the Mediterranean.

Out of doors Life mentioned the Reel Labor crew included anglers Justin Dox, J.R. Spencer, Chris Mills, and Scott Farmer alongside Pate. The fishermen needed to take activates the road as they battled to reel the wahoo in. It took them an hour to get it near the boat and struggled to get it out of the water.

Finally the crew managed to stay the fish with gaff hooks—sharp hooks hooked up to lengthy poles—and hauled it up onto the deck.

Reel Labor's catch was the most important in South Carolina Wahoo Collection historical past to date, the competitors mentioned on their Fb web page. However it nonetheless got here up brief in comparison with the world file. The most important ever wahoo caught weighed 184 kilos in response to the Worldwide Sport Fish Affiliation. It was caught by Sara Haywood off the coast of Mexico in 2005.

Pate and the crew voiced satisfaction of their catch and are nonetheless competing within the collection.

"It is the fish of a lifetime ... Three of our five-man crew can have a reproduction mount made from the fish, as a result of none us expects to ever get one other one like this," Pate mentioned.

The 2022 South Carolina Wahoo Collection runs from February 11 to April 17.

Stock image of huge wahoo fish
Inventory picture of giant wahoo fish. The Reel Labor crew's catch weighed in at slightly below 120 kilos. Chris world/Getty Photos