70 Year Old Grandma Catches Huge Halibut

The huge halibut weighed 380 pounds and measured 7 feet 4 inches.
KTLA News 11:22 AM EDT, June 24, 2010
LaVerne Glover with 380 pound halibut (Courtesy LaVerne Glover)


<H3> MOORPARK -- It was a fishing trip a 70 year old grandmother of nine will never forget.

LaVerne Glover of Moorpark reeled in a 380 pound halibut last week on the final day of her fishing trip to Sitka, Alaska with her husband, Bob.

The huge halibut measured 7-feet-4-inches, dwarfing LaVerne's 5-foot-3 1/4-inch frame.

LaVerne, a retired receptionist for a beauty salon, used chunk bait with a 5-foot-6-inch Seeker rod, an Avet 4/0 two-speed reel, 16/0 circle hook and 80-pound Spectra line.

She says she knew right away that she had hooked a big fish. Once she saw the fish come to the top, everyone on the boat thought it was a monster.

"I was so shocked and I was trying to stay composed, you know, not just scream," she told KTLA.

LaVerne says she "had leverage" and used two hands and "really raise it up."

It took her 45 minutes and help from everyone on board to bring the big fish onto the boat.

The gigantic catch didn't make it into the record books, however. The scales were closed at the Kingfisher lodge the day LaVerne caught it.

Fishing has always been a part of the Glovers life together. The couple met in Westlake Village and their first date was a twilight fishing trip in Oxnard.

LaVerne fished as a child growing up in Santa Monica, but she gave it up for nearly 20 years until meeting Bob.

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