The matter in summary Asmund Aasheim and Team Bigblue caught a mackerel sturgeon of 448.5 kilograms outside Austevoll in Vestland, thus setting a new Norwegian record. The fish, which was almost three meters long, took two hours to get on board the boat. The team cannot sell the fish, so they have given away parts of it to friends and acquaintances. This is the second mackerel sturgeon Aasheim has helped catch this year, which means they have used up this year’s fishing quota. Aasheim and the team are looking forward to next year, with a goal of catching a fish of over 500 kilos. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAI. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. Earlier in October, news wrote about Asmund Aasheim and the gang who hauled up a 367 kilo mackerel sturgeon on a pole outside Bømlo in Vestland. Now he has done it again. Aasheim, Bjørn Furre and Geir Åge Iversen in “Team Bigblue” went out on Friday to a narrow strait outside Austevoll in Vestland. And the result? An almost three meter long mackerel sturgeon weighing 448.5 kilograms. This means that they have broken the previous Norwegian record, which stands at 396.7 kilos. – It is the roughest thing you can experience as an angler. I don’t know of anything that can compare to it. At first they thought there was something wrong with the scale they were using. But when they realized that this was real, there was great jubilation. – Then it was a bit of a pinch me in the arm experience. Then there were some good man hugs with that fish. It was great fun. It was Sunnhordland that reported the catch first. Took two hours to get the fish up – It’s a full job for three men to get that fish up in the boat, says Aasheim. They had one person who drove the boat, and two who hauled in the fish. At the same time as Bjørn Furre cranked in the rod, Aasheim put on gloves and helped to pull the line to get the fish out of the ocean depths and into the boat. Bjørn Furre had the honor of getting the beast on the pole. Photo: PRIVATE Getting the beast on board the boat took two hours. – Bjørn, who stood with the harness and pole on, was full of bruises from head to toe today all over his front. Both over the iliac crest, the back, the front of the legs and knees. Aasheim himself has a real limp in his arms and bruises here and there on his body. – You can imagine if you have something that weighs almost half a ton, which moves at a slow jogging speed. Then you should try to hold it again. That’s when you really realize what forces you’re up against. Used up the quota But what do you do with such a fish? Aasheim says that they are not allowed to sell it. That means they have to eat the fish, or give it away. – Right now while you are calling, I am actually out in the countryside and have given away probably 30 kilos here and there to friends and acquaintances. Lokalavisa wrote so nicely yesterday that everyone who wants it will get it. So my phone has been ringing more or less non-stop since that moment, he laughs. Much of the fish is given away to friends, acquaintances and strangers. From left: Bjørn Furre, Asmund Aasheim and Geir Åge Iversen. Photo: PRIVAT They also still have the freezer full of the fish that was pulled up earlier in October. The fact that they have caught two mackerel sturgeon recently means that they have used up this year’s fishing quota. So if Aasheim and the team are going to try to get a bigger fish, he will probably have to wait until next year. – This is probably our life fish. If we are to top this, we must exceed 500 kg. – We have to go for 500 kg as the next target, then, he adds. Hi! Do you have any tips or input on the matter? Or do you have suggestions for something we should write about? Feel free to get in touch! Published 26.10.2024, at 18.15 Updated 26.10.2024, at 18.24
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Asmund Aasheim and “Team Bigblue” hauled up Norway’s largest mackerel sturgeon outside Austevoll – news Vestland
