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Shark Week Of Their Own
By Cash Lambert, OutdoorChannel.com
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif -- It's most likely purely coincidence that the yearly spectacle of Shark Week coincides with a large harvest of sometimes record-breaking mako sharks off Southern California's coast.
At this time last year, when the Discovery Channel was holding its 25th Shark Week, one mako reeled in weighed 750 pounds before breaking the scale. Another, only 6 weeks apart, was sized at 10 feet, 3 inches.
Just this past June, Corey Knowlton of Jim Shockey's "The Professionals" on Outdoor Channel was on board filming when a 1,323-pound mako was caught off the coast of Huntington Beach. The monster took angler Jason Johnston nearly two hours to reel in.
"He took...