Tuna catch may be a record

POTENTIAL RECORD: Sue Tindale with her 219kg catch.

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A world record for women anglers may be threatened after Sue Tindale of Dairy Flat landed a 219kg blue fin tuna.

Her catch record on a West Coast charter trip has yet to be verified.

The 2.56 metre long fish was cut up and packed in the Tindale's Landcruiser to bring home, with Desert Rd snow added to the bins, and it has become tuna for tea.

Husband Scott might also have had a record, but his hook pulled after four-and-a-half hours fighting what one of the crew described as a "whale", just as it was about be landed.

He helped gaff Sue's fish when it was hauled in after a three-and-a-half-hour battle, suffering a hand wound in the process. It took the aid of others on board to get it round the boat stern to a side door where all could lift it aboard.

A Warkworth Game Fishing Club member, Scott says after a fortnight the Landcruiser still smells like a fishing boat.

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