The largest tuna ever caught weighed 1,496 pounds. This Ken Fraser catch remains the great father of all tuna catches. Landed in October 1979, this 1,496-pound giant got hooked while fishing for mackerel in Nova Scotia. Nowadays, in this part of Canada you can still see impressive quantities of large blueberries, the largest in the entire world.
The largest ever captured, recorded, was that of Ken Fraser in Nova Scotia. The tuna he pulled out weighed a whopping 1,496 pounds. Jon Patten is the current world record holder for tackle with a 236 pound, 15-ounce dogtooth tuna caught in November. While this tuna usually sinks during the day, it can be lured closer to the surface with the right lures.
Highly migratory bluefins are the giants of the tuna world, and adults dwarf their many cousins. Just north of Nova Scotia is Prince Edward Island, another epicenter of monstrous bluefin tuna fishing. Blackfin fins are uniformly dark, without a hint of the bright lemon yellow that is often seen on other tunas. This record refers to fish sometimes called Atlantic bluefin tuna, tuna or horse mackerel.
Here's a look at the largest tuna of all time, as recorded by the International Hunting Association. Dog-toothed tunas have a reputation for fighting, as they often run long and fast after a connection, followed by a battle to get them to the ship. Raz Reid holds a remarkable world record for fly-fishing in the 16-pound, 8-ounce tippet class, who caught a 101-pound, 8-ounce bluefin tuna on February 22, 1996 while fishing in Hatteras, North Carolina. Long-tailed tuna, also called northern bluefin tuna or oriental bonito, is found in tropical and subtropical waters ranging from the central Pacific Ocean throughout Southeast Asia to the east of the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden.
While Paul Hebert of Wicked Tuna may not hold the record for the largest tuna in the world, he's still pretty close. Big-haired ones were once considered a variation of yellowfin tuna, but differences, such as the second shorter dorsal and anal fins, set them apart. After nearly 10 hours of dehydrating on the boat, bluefin tuna still weighed an incredible 1,496 pounds. Dog tooth tuna is also known as scaleless tuna, lizard-mouth tuna, albacore tuna, vau, atu, kidukidu or dadori.
Tyler McLaughlin also caught a fish that weighed 1,269 pounds, and TJ Ott caught a 125-inch, 1250-pound tuna. The most recent catches of large bluefin tuna include one off the coast of Maine and another off the coast of Louisiana.
