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Aboard the Vagabond, an 80-foot deluxe sportfisher, Mike Livingston's got his heaviest price to date, a 405-pound Yellowfin Tuna. This one it the heaviest on record caught by an angler and will replace the current record, a 388-pound 12-ounce specimen, which has stood since 1977.

Mike and company had been on a 10-day expedition in search of "super cows," or tuna weighing 300 pounds or more. His catch was from Magdalena Bay on the southern Baja California peninsula.

The tuna weighed 405.2 pounds; it's girth was 61 inches and it measured nearly 86 inches from nose to tail. It took him nearly three hours fight before they were able to pull it aboard.

When the scale hit that number it was like the Super Bowl here," said Livingston, 63, a retired school administrator, in reference to cheers from a crowd of nearly 200, gathered to witness the weigh-in.

Here's a video while he is weighing the fish:



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