Dubbed as a mythical TUNICORN, an angler must be proud to be able to tell his grand-kids an 'ultimate fisherman's tale' after hooking a weird dog-tooth tuna with horn on it's head.
A fruit glower from Bloomfield, Kim, 64, and his brother Jamie and nephew Christopher witnessed this bizarre catch of a life time.
A whopping 40kg dog tooth tuna did not actually amazed the three, but its horn sticking out of its head.
"We got it up, and it had a spike sticking straight out," Kim told Daily Mail Australia.
"We brought it on deck and carefully removed the bill in the dinghy and revived it."
However, this weird TUNICORN is not a legit fairytale story when they found out that the horn on the tuna's head is actually the bill from a sailfish which just had lodged in the dog-tooth tuna's head.
He added: "It looked to me like the only way it could have gotten there is that there was a feeding frenzy.
"My guess is there was a bait ball, and the sailfish must have speared the tuna by mistake, and the bill snapped off."
When the three decided to return the weird tuna to the water, its bloody wound attracted sharks which unfortunately killed it.
Kim said: "We've been fishing all our lives, and it looked so strange."
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