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Old 06-20-2015, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Flukemeister1 View Post
When I was stationed in Montauk the legendary Frank Mundus caught a huge Great White fishing next to a dead whale. IGFA would not award him the record because they said the whale was bait and mammals are not legal for bait. There was rumor at the time that Mundus had killed the whale to attract the sharks but that was just a rumor. He sat on that whale tossing tuna chunks at that shark for three days and he said there was another one there that made that one look like a puppy.
I've seen pictures of him on that whale. Met him once or twice and remember when the cricket II was at star island
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