Alien Monster Fish hooked in Bryans Bay, Jamaica

The two Jamaicans happened to be out fishing on a Sunday morning (November 2013) when they hooked what ended to be a 900-pound scale less beast of a fish. Both fishers, Desmond Phillips and Michael Grant, had never seen anything that looked like their strange, midmorning catch and at one point were frightened that they had someway captured an alien.

The monstrous fish was later identified as a “sunfish”. Not a native inhabitant of the waters along the coast of Bryans Bay in Portland, Jamaica. The sunfish consumes mostly jellyfish; however has a taste for squids, sponges, Portuguese man of war and other various invertebrates.

The Ocean Sunfish (Mola or Mola Mola) is a slow-moving fish that likes to move with the ocean currents. Although a 900-pound fish is enormous, for this species it is just a baby. The typical adult size of a sunfish is 2,200 lbs. However, the largest sunfish documented weighed in at 4,927 pounds and was 10 feet long with a large 14-foot measurement from dorsal to anal fin (top and bottom fins).

900-Pound Sunfish Not Easy to Wrestle into Small Boat

According to the November 18, 2013 United Press International (UPI) report, the unique fish frightened Phillips who struggled with the fish for almost two hours in his try to land the beast.

At some point, while battling to get the giant fish into their boat, Phillips recommended they simply release it. However, Grant was determined they were planning bring the fish back to port with them. It is difficult enough to deal with 900 pounds between two men, much less a wiggling fish equally determined to get its freedom.

For nearly an hour, the men struggled to get the fish into the boat and eventually gave up, opting to lash it to the side of the boat. They started towing it home, however the fish was so heavy yet still struggling the boat could not make much progress through the Jamaican waters. They soon decided the best way to get their catch back home was by getting it into the boat with them.

It took much effort to make this happen. Indeed, the water that flooded into the boat threatened to sink them. Yet, somehow through sheer will, the two fishers managed to drag the fish into the boat and head for home to Bryans Bay with their prize.

his was not the first time that such big sunfish have been viewed in waters that are not their usual route.

Florida Man’s Close Encounter with Huge Sunfish

In August 2010, Palm City, Florida resident Ed Rice, his son Daniel and their fellow fisher Steven Trull were on their way home from St Lucie Inlet when they noticed a large fin breaking through the ocean’s surface.
They try to sail in for a closer look and were shocked to discover a sunfish estimated to be about a 400-pound with a 4-foot breadth. They were not able to find out the fish’s length, but it was a large fish.

Although such sightings of sunfish are rare, fishers see the fish when large class of jellyfish head to the tropical waters. In 2010, uncommonly massive schools of jellyfish swam through the tropical ocean off the coast of Florida., Large fish are far more common in the world’s oceans than most people realize. Such oversized fish were often considered sea lore or even myths centuries past. With the aid of technology through digital cameras and fast communication, several myths are now being proven real world stories of astonishing ocean inhabitants.