THE TIGER SHARK was four times heavier than the muscular stonemason who was bracing his 190-pound, six-foot body against the shark’s first run. His 16/0 big-game reel gave line grudgingly and his ...

A fishing crew recently set a new state record after reeling in a huge bull shark at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. The Bon Secour Butchers team on “The Orca” vessel caught the 494.5-pound beast ...

A recent global study reviewed over 160 scientific papers covering 147 shark species, focusing on what happens after their release. Sleek and powerful, a single dorsal fin slices through deep blue ...

Specialists with the Sea World Foundation rescued a grey nurse shark off the coast of South West Rocks in Australia. The mature female shark had a large trace line attached to a fishing hook ...

With the ongoing shark depredation problem in the Gulf, anglers have been scratching their heads in search of solutions to deal with losing hooked fish constantly to the aggressive predators. I’ve ...

Around 115 million years ago, northern Australia’s seas hosted a colossal shark that rewrites what we thought we knew about ...

This story, “Big-Game Fishing’s Greatest Catch,” appeared in the April 1984 issue of Outdoor Life. Maxwell’s 1964 tiger shark remains tied for the all-tackle world-record (with a shark caught off the ...