Using 60kg bait, the group of fishermen caught a giant fish weighing up to 436.2kg

It took a group of fishermen nearly 3 hours to pull the 436.2 kg swordfish onto the ship off the coast of Australia.

According to News.com.au , George Lirantzis and three friends caught a 436.2kg giant swordfish off the coast of Mallacoota, south of the New South Wales-Victoria state area.

To catch this huge fish, the fishermen had to use bait weighing up to 60kg . When the swordfish took the bait, it kept jumping up and down out of the water near the boat.

"When we saw the fish take the bait, it jumped out of the water and struggled violently 50 meters from the boat," Lirantzis recounted .

'The closer we pulled it to the boat, the more it jumped up and down, like someone dropped a missile around the boat ,' Lirantzis told ABC News .

The swordfish weighs "about the same as a rocket".

It took the group of fishermen 110 minutes to drag the swordfish close to the boat and another 60 minutes to bring it on board.

"However, that time was very short. Normally, catching swordfish takes much longer, with some people wrestling with them for nearly a day ," Lirantzis shared.

It is known that the world's largest giant swordfish record was recorded off the coast of northern Chile in 1953. The swordfish at that time weighed up to 536.15kg.

Before that, Lirantzis and his team also had a memorable experience, when they caught a giant swordfish weighing 347kg.

According to the President of the Ulladulla Recreational Fishing Club, the fish will be frozen at Fishing Co Op and stuffed. The record was not officially confirmed because the group of fishermen used non-standard fishing equipment.

The swordfish, swordfish, sometimes also called sawfish, is a large, migratory carnivorous fish with a long, flat bill, in contrast to the round, smooth bill of marlin species. It is a popular fish, although somewhat difficult to catch. Swordfish have a round and elongated body, and when mature, they lose all of their teeth and scales. With a round and elongated body, this fish can swim very fast. The maximum speed of swordfish can be up to 64 km/h.