article_snippet: It was a case of ‘The Young Man And The Sea’ after a massive swordfish was caught by a 16-year-old boy in Tasmania that weighed over three times his bodyweight and which took his six hours to get into his friend Leo Miler
article_snippet: The amazing feat was pulled off by teenage fisherman Kyle Longmore - who weighs just 70kg - when his caught the record-breaking 263.5kg broad-bill swordfish about 35km off Tasmania’s East Coast.
article_snippet: What made the effort even more incredible was that the teenager caught the 263.5kg fish using just 24kg fishing line.
article_snippet: It was for this reason it took his so long to reel the huge fish in as his was afraid the line would snap.
article_snippet: It's believed to be the biggest swordfish ever hooked in Australian waters by amateurs.
article_snippet: Kyle just had to be careful because the line was so much lighter than the weight of the huge fish,' Kyle told Daily Mail Australia.
article_snippet: The 16-year-old was able to catch the massive swordfish using only 24kg fishing line . '
article_snippet: the massive swordfish using only 24kg fishing line jumped about 23 times to try and get rid of the hook, but we still weren’t sure how big the massive swordfish using only 24kg fishing line was.
article_snippet: It was only when we got the massive swordfish using only 24kg fishing line onto the boat that we realised the size of the massive swordfish using only 24kg fishing line. '
article_snippet: The 263.5kg broad-bill swordfish jumps out of the sea to try and get rid of the hook .
highlights_snippet: The broad-bill swordfish weighed more than three times heavier than Kyle .
  
highlights_snippet: Kyle caught The broad-bill swordfish using only 24kg fishing line off Tasmania’s East Coast .
  