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Two Massachusetts<\/a> fishermen spent three hours fighting to reel in what they at first thought was a shark, but turned out to be likely the largest Atlantic blue marlins ever caught off the East Coast.<\/p>\n

Damon Stacco said the day started off with no luck, then after he and client Walter Chapman loaded up the boat with yellowfin tuna, he saw a fin while fishing roughly 100 miles off Cape Cod.<\/p>\n

A “huge dorsal,” he wrote on his Instagram page. “Am I really seeing this? Four feet high but pointed. A blue hue flashed beneath it. Pecs? Holy s— it’s a marlin! The fin dissappeared [sic] when I screamed. I dropped back the rod beside me and the tip bounced. Line ripped from beneath my fingers.”<\/p>\n

TENNESSEE ANGLER LANDS MONSTER 15-POUND LARGEMOUTH BASS THAT SHATTERS STATE RECORD HELD SINCE 2015<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

He told reporters he at first thought the fish was “too big” to be a marlin.<\/p>\n

“Well, it\u2019s official,” he wrote on Instagram on the Wednesday catch, explaining that the fish weighed in at 1,260 pounds on an IGFA certified scale in Falmouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8-YEAR-OLD BOY REELS IN BIZARRE SURPRISE DURING WEEKEND FISHING TRIP AT PENNSYLVANIA LAKE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

He called it a “gift from the Gods and new blue marlin Mass. state record<\/a> and possibly for the Western Atlantic.”<\/p>\n

It was also just 142 pounds short of the world record, which was a 1,402 Atlantic blue marlin caught off Brazil 34 years ago.<\/p>\n

Stacco said Chapman did most of the work on his charter boat, Castafari, joking that his job was to “drive the bus around and yell at people.”<\/p>\n

8-YEAR-OLD BOY REELS IN BIZARRE SURPRISE DURING WEEKEND FISHING TRIP AT PENNSYLVANIA LAKE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Walt Golet, director of the University of Maine<\/a> Pelagic Fisheries Lab, said the catch in waters off Massachusetts<\/a> is even more remarkable because the water is too cold most of the year.<\/p>\n

Golet estimated the fish might be 25 to 30 years old as its head was taken to his lab for confirmation.<\/p>\n

SHARK WEEK ADVISORY AS WARMING SEAS PUSH BLACKTIPS FARTHER NORTH ALONG EAST COAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t suspect there will be a whole lot of blue marlin caught in the Atlantic in general that are going to top 1,200 pounds for the next several years,” he said.<\/p>\n

Stacco said the fish also left some holes in the boat\u2019s transom, which he called “war marks.”<\/p>\n

Chapman, who is also a lifelong fisherman, said the meat would be divided among about a dozen people.<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t going to eat a 1,200-pound fish all by myself,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/massachusetts-fishermen-land-1260-pound-blue-marlin-short-world-record <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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