A mahi mahi catch three weeks ago that broke a 34-year-old record became a short-lived record when a woman in Maryland landed another record-breaker.
Kristy Frashure was fishing the Poor Girls Fishing Tournament in Ocean City on Friday when she landed a mahi mahi weighing 74.5 pounds, a Maryland state record in the Atlantic Division for mahi mahi, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced Monday.
On July 28, Jeff Wright, practicing for a fishing tournament also out of Ocean City, landed a 72.8-pound mahi mahi that broke the state record of 67.8 pounds that was set in July of 1985 by Kim Lawson.
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The all-tackle record for mahi mahi, also known as a common dolphinfish, stands at 87 pounds caught in 1976 off Costa Rica.
Frashure of Pasadena, Md., and five friends were fishing off Poor Man’s Canyon when the fish hit. It was near the same area Wright caught his record-breaker.
“It took nearly 20-30 minutes to reel in…it felt like an eternity,” Frashure said, according to the MDNR. “We were taking bets on how much it weighed.”
Apparently none predicted it was a record-breaker.
The official weight was confirmed by a MDNR biologist at Bahia Marina.
Photo of Kristi Frashure with husband holding record fish courtesy of Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
