By CJ Lotz

A German angler fishing near Norway will go home to a happy spouse. Christian Johannsen's wife told him to come home with fish as he left for his trip. He responded by landing a 427-pound halibut this week.

"Oh she'll get a big piece," he told the newspaper Die Welt.

Johannsen needed the help of two friends in the four-hour figh to reel in the huge fish.

“Every fisher dreams about this, it’s like winning the lottery,” Johannsen said.

This is the second monster fish caught in Norway by a German angler in recent weeks. Remember that pending-world-record cod?

By Ben Romans

Michael Eisele just became the envy of every fish-and-chip franchise in Great Britain. According to a story from the New York Daily News, the 44 year-old resident of Kiel, Germany, recently caught a huge cod off the coast of Norway that weighed an incredible 103 pounds—about five pounds heavier than the current International Game Fish Association’s (IGFA) all tackle cod record (a 98 pound fish caught near New Hampshire in 1969). It's also the first known cod caught with rod-and-reel to break the 100-pound mark.

By Chad Love

In the wake of last month's news of a huge great white caught off the Florida coast by a Canadian tourist, comes yet another news story about a 1,000-pound great white caught and released a mile off a Fort Lauderdale beach.

From this story on sun-sentinel.com:  
Great white sharks are a rarity in Florida, so when a shark ate a butterflied bonito on a kite line Tuesday morning off Fort Lauderdale, the crew on Hooked Up figured it had to be a bull shark. It wasn't until almost two hours later that Capt. Greg McCauley realized that his four anglers had been fighting a great white estimated at 131/2 feet and 800-1,000 pounds.

By Chad Love

A New Zealand man swimming at a popular local beach was killed by several sharks even as police officers in boats and a helicopter opened fire on them.

From this story in  the (UK) Daily Mail: 
An award-winning film and TV director was today mauled to death by a Great White shark as he swam off a popular New Zealand tourist beach. Adam Strange, 46, was attacked and pulled under water about 200metres from Auckland’s Muriwai Beach at around 1.30pm in front of hundreds of beach tourists. Up to three more sharks were said to have been drawn to the attack as police officers fired at least 20 shots from a lifeboat and helicopter in a desperate bid to rescue him.