With this monster cod sent Marica a 46 year old world record – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): It had a Swedish woman to take the 46-year-old world record in cod fishing for women.

Marica Eriksson (35) from Uddevalla arise namely into the history books with monster cod she took at Sørøya in West Finnmark Sunday.

It weighed no less than 38 kilograms, or 83 pounds.

– It is certainly “cool”, acknowledges the Swede.

– What did you think when it snatched?

– I knew it was big, but not that it was so big, she says .

Fish tour was her second in Norway. When she fished in Lofoten last year, she got a cod of 25 kilos. It is the biggest she has – until now.

She and her father Mickey was alone in the boat when the fish biting, but stay in Finnmark is arranged through fishing company Nordic Sea Angling, which sets with their own fishing guides.

– This is really a big fish and a fantastic catch. To make it all even better was also her father is a 30-kilo, said guide Johan Mikkelsen in the Swedish company to hooked.no, who first publicized case.

The fishermen were given only two hours in the sea before the weather was so bad that they had in the country but had incredible luck fishing in the short time. On the island lies Hasvik municipality, which markets itself as “big fish.”

Sunday’s record cod is not the only historic fish that are made there. It is also the world until now biggest cod caught on rod, printer hooked.

The former world record for women was according to the website taken by Sophie Karwa outside Massachusetts in the US in 1970.

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