This mini RC boat can travel where larger boats can’t—delivering a payload of feed to attract fish and/or deliver a bated hook with a floater up to 950 feet away. It also features an LED light under the stern to attract fish and a sonar fish finder that will send data to the backlit LCD on your remote control. However, if you want to spend more time getting drunk in the boat and less time working for your fish, keep in mind that this RC boat won’t come cheap. It will set you back around $US726. [Pro Idee via OhGizmo]

“The grab was instantaneous, and the shark cooperated with a quick left turn to allow the proper hook set,” said Patterson.

The fight lasted about 25 minutes. Patterson thought it was a mako shark until he got it close enough to the boat and skipper Conway Bowman identified it as a great white.

Interestingly, “Patterson” happens to be Jeff Patterson, director of sales for Abel products. He was conducting tests with their equipment about five miles off the La Jolla coast—or so the story goes. Be that as it may, it is believed to be the first great white taken off the coast of California using a fly rod and wheel. However, it is illegal to capture great whites because of their protected status, so it was set free shortly after this picture was snapped. So, watch your arse California beachgoers—Jaws is out there and presumed pissed. [LA Times]

“Seeing it was the river that took it from me, it’s gonna at least catch me some fish,” says Maker Captain Ahab (perfection in a handle). He used the screen polishing cloth for the body, the USB logicboard connector for the legs, touchscreen interface wires for the head and wings, and various other harvested components to craft this beauty. Now the next step is finding a pond full of fanboy fish. [Fly Addict Forums via MAKE]

I’ve seen similar things before, with other fishes and from boats. In this case, it looks absolutely real: it’s definitely not 3D or an animatronic–look how it swims away.

I’m sure they tried a few times before actually achieving it, then edited the whole thing to make it appear as a single try. You can also keep the marlin around with food and, like other fishes, they won’t run away from you unless you try to approach underwater. And finally. technically the video is impeccable. Maybe that’s the trick, and it’s fake after all, but I’m inclined to believe that they got it after some hard work. [Heavy]

Ippon Zuri, which means pole-and-line fishing, is available to DoCoMo subscribers in the town of Fukuoka, and was created by local system development company FIT, who teamed up with a local fish wholesaler. Gamers pay 1,000¥ (about 10 bucks) for three games, in which they cast to all kinds of seafood, from crab to sea bream in the hope of hooking them.

If successful, the player then has an encounter with a slot machine and, should he get lucky with three matching numbers, then the fish is reeled in, the seafood supplier contacted and, ta-daa, it’s fish for supper. [Pink Tentacle]

We’re thinking it’s going to be tough to fix the fishing games released thus far for the Wii, including Bass Fishing Wii, which our Kotaku brethren called “dull,” and Rapalla Tournament Fishing, which hasn’t been very well received either. Perhaps the only thing this $19 Wii Fishing Pole will be good for is beating a dead horse.

Just a thought: It’s summertime—maybe a bit of real fishing would be a better substitute for playing a fishing game on the Wii.

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