A fisherman based in Queensland, Australia, this week shared an image showing him posing with the head of a giant trevally after its body was cleanly severed by a shark during the fight.
“The hat says it all,” Ryan Selvy bemoaned via Instagram. “What would have been a [personal best] GT.”
The letters on the cap read, “Tax sucks.” (Click here to view Selvey’s post.)
For anglers around the world, a shark that steals hooked fish is referred to as the taxman, or tax collector.
Giant trevally are found throughout the Indian and central Pacific oceans, eastward to Hawaii, where they’re called ulua.
They’re prized mostly for their fighting ability and Selvey said the GT claimed by the shark would have been the largest he had caught (though well short of the world-record, 160-pound, 7-ounce giant trevally caught off Japan in 2006).
Selvey did not provide an estimated weight for the GT, but told FTW Outdoors that he was wearing the cap when the taxman came calling.
“One of my favorite hats,” he said.