back in the 70's i belonged to the fl shark club i know that in the middle 70's a guy (blackie cant remember his last name) caught a 700lb+ hammer off the jax pier and at that time it was a record but later in the 70s i did hear about a bigger one caught in the tampa bay area. i have always heard that there was some big hammers in that area. i did catch one of st augustine in the late 70s on 30lb line that would have been a record for the line class but we used a bang stick when we got it to the boat. it went 475lbs if i could find a picture of it i will post it. i have pics of a lot of big sharks we caught back then off st. aug.