Family Starts Off With a Friendly Fishing Competition–and Ends Up Catching Over 2000lb Haul

Family Starts Off With a Friendly Fishing Competition–and Ends Up Catching Over 2000lb Haul
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When father and fishing enthusiast Robert Poirier encouraged his sons to engage in a little friendly competition out on the waters, he likely never expected that the kids would be able to pull in quite the haul they did during a recent fishing expedition—and as a result, they’ve managed to go viral.

Poirier explained to Fox News that his two sons had started to compete with one another back in April when his elder son Max managed to snag a 9-foot, 250-pound (approx. 113-kilogram) hammerhead shark. In return, younger brother Brendan made sure that he was able to reel in an even bigger hammerhead later in the summer—and the pair kept up the friendly competition until a recent, mind-boggling outing to catch some goliath grouper.