David Esslinger reeled in the tuna while fishing with some buddies, and it took everyone onboard to boat the massive fish.

The crew brought “food for a month, beer for 2 months,” but they only needed a few hours to land a monster catch.

caught in 2021. The IGFA all-tackle world record bluefin tuna weighed 1,496-pounds, and it was taken off Nova Scotia in 1979 by angler Ken Fraser. “Thank you to our awesome TEAM,” Esslinger ...

It weighed in at 884 pounds. The current record for largest bluefin tuna caught in Texas was set nearly four years ago, in April of 2021, when angler Troy Lancaster caught an impressive 876-pound ...