A possible record-breaking shark has been caught just outside of the Los Angeles Harbor. Angler Jason Johnston of Mesquite, Texas hauled in a 12-foot-long, 1,300-plus-pound shortfin mako shark Monday off the coast of Huntington Beach, KTLA reports. It took Johnston, who was on a charter fishing trip run by Mako Matt’s and Breakaway Charters, more than two hours to reel in the monster catch. “It’s unreal. This thing is definitely a killing machine. Any wrong step, I could have gone out of the boat and down to the bottom of the ocean,” Johnston said to KTLA in the video above. “He took out a quarter-mile of line ... and five times he came out of the water over 20 feet,” he said. “It was...
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