PANAMA CITY, Fla. — A Florida fisherman reeled in the catch of a lifetime earlier this week, a 330-pound Warsaw grouper.
Brandon Lee Van Horn caught the grouper after about 25 minutes, the Panama City News Herald reported.
He caught it at a depth of 375-feet in the Gulf of Mexico. The fish weighed 313 pounds after it was gutted.
"You have no idea how much that fish means to me. I will probably never catch another one that big ever again," Van Horn told the News Herald. "Definitely a fish of a lifetime."
“Most of the time, they break off or straighten out your hook,” Van Horn said. “Once you get to the last 150 feet, they get the bends, though, like a diver, and they just blow up full of air and float to the surface.”
The state record is a 436-pound fish caught in 1985 off Destin.