It is thought that a group of fisherman smashed a state record earlier this month when they participated in the annual Billfish Limited contest held by the Mobile Big Game Fishing Club.
In an interview with Outdoor Life, Taylor Guidry stated that he heard something taking the line at around 4 a.m. on the morning of August 1.
He said that the Shimano was not making any noise because the reel clicker was off.
No one heard the fish because of this.
He promptly notified his father Chad, cousin Justin, and Captain Steve Pixley of Prime Time boat, who assembled around the pole to start bringing the fish in.
About 120 miles off Mobile, Guidry, 27, successfully hauled in a 161.6-pound escolar after battling for an hour and a half to bring in 2,000 feet of line.
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Pixley told The Destin Log, “I had no idea that God had made them that large.”
According to him, it took three of us to get it through the tuna door.
For roughly fifteen minutes, it freaked out on the deck. Seeing that fish made us a little nervous. It was severely damaging the boat.
A man from Orlando grabbed a 102-pound, 10-ounce escolar in September 2023, which is now the largest escolar on record, according to Alabama Outdoors State Saltwater Records.
At the tournament in Alabama, the men on board the Prime Time weighed the fish and prepared documentation to be submitted for a record.
Guidry told Outdoor Life, “Escolars are good to eat, but we donated the fish to the scientific community for study.”
They are quite uncommon, and they would be very interested in one of that size. Instead of a typical replica mount, I’ve had an ink print created of my entire fish. Harley Van Hyning, a canvas artist from Destin, is the finest at achieving that, in my opinion.
