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Massive tiger shark landed during ‘team-building’ fishing trip

A group of South Carolina business partners on Sunday teamed to land a massive tiger shark that weighed an estimated 1,500 pounds.

A group of South Carolina business partners on Sunday teamed to land a tiger shark that weighed an estimated 1,500 pounds.

“If that wasn’t a great team-building exercise, I don’t know what is,” Capt. Chip Michalove told FTW Outdoors.

Michalove, owner of Outcast Sport Fishing in Hilton Head, did not provide the anglers’ names but said they fought the shark for 90 minutes before it was alongside the boat. (The shark was released after a brief photo session.)

“Largest one we’ve caught in years, a 13-footer,” Michalove boasted Monday via Facebook.

Any tiger shark topping 1,000 pounds is considered to be enormous.

For comparison, the International Game Fish Assn. lists the world record as a tie between a catches of 1,785 pounds, 11 ounces (Australia, 2004) and 1,780 pounds (South Carolina, 1964).

(The 1964 catch was made from a Myrtle Beach pier!)

13-foot tiger shark moments before it was released. Photo: Chip Michalove

Michalove, who in July 2022 caught and released a record-size hammerhead shark, explained that giant tiger sharks tend to be active off South Carolina in the fall.

“It seems like every year the largest tiger is always the last two weeks of October,” he said. “Last year we lost an enormous one on Halloween.”

Michalove, who is authorized to tags sharks for research, said he has caught several of the same large tiger sharks over the years.

Tiger shark was landed after a 90-minute fight. Photo: Chip Michalove

But the shark his group caught Sunday did not have a tag and did not show markings that would imply it had previously been tagged.

Asked about how the anglers handled the fight, Michalove explained:

“The fight was an hour and a half. It took all four customers multiple rod swaps to get her close. One of the guys was a pastor, and that always seems beneficial.”

‘Always a tough stretch’: McCarthy cancels Day 2 of Cowboys minicamp practice

After getting through the 8th and final “install” day, McCarthy gave players a day off practice, holding a team-building event instead. | From @ToddBrock24f7

The Cowboys started the mandatory portion of their minicamp on Tuesday.

They got through enough content, apparently, that head coach Mike McCarthy canceled Wednesday’s practice in favor of a “dynamic” team bonding event.

McCarthy also nixed all media availability for the day, meaning he won’t be answering to inquiring minds quite yet about what the activity entailed.

Though scrapping the second day of practice may sound unusual at first blush, the move shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise. McCarthy followed a similar timeline last year, canceling the final day of minicamp practice for a group activity before releasing players for a 40-day break before Oxnard.

In fact, before the team had even taken the field for their first practice this week, McCarthy was already looking ahead to the rest of the schedule, with an eye toward not burning anyone out.

“I’ll be honest. When we walk off here today, I’ll have a little better idea of what we’re going to do,” the coach told reporters Tuesday. “I want to get through this install phase. We didn’t have the best of weeks last week [at OTAs], which is normal. It’s not negative. I just think: young players, veteran guys that we’re resting, the different combinations. Six, seven, eight installs is always a tough stretch for your rookies.”

Tuesday’s session marked the eighth and final install day according to the coach’s master plan.

No word yet on Thursday’s scheduled practice session, but McCarthy has admitted that strict CBA rules prohibiting contact at this stage of the offseason are a factor. There’s no benefit to exposing players to potential injury just for the sake of holding another practice. The coach seems content to save the real work for the more amenable environment in California, where the team will not only hold their usual camp, but also take part in joint practices with both the Broncos and Chargers ahead of their preseason games.

“It’s really kind of hard to apply pressure, those types of things,” McCarthy said of these early sessions at The Star. “I think the biggest thing- and really the whole goal of the offseason program- is to conceptually learn and teach and make sure that we can go in and have a very competitive training camp in Oxnard, especially with the weather and the situation out there. The one thing I enjoyed [about Oxnard in 2021] is we were really able to push the team. The workload capacity out there was excellent last year. So, we’re looking to build off of that.”

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