Holy marlin!
A 16-year-old from New York has caught the year's biggest blue marlin off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. It weighs in at 1,058 pounds and measures 11 feet from jaw to tail.
A GoPro video and photos posted on Ihu Nui Sportfishing's Facebook shows Brooklyn teen Koya Rizzuto, grandson of sport fishing writer Jim Rizzuto, wrangling the grand blue marlin onto the 45-foot Monterey boat on Feb. 18.
The video shows, in fast-forward, Rizzuto's 30-minute struggle, which left the fish dead. According to Facebook, the fish was shared with people in the area.
Catching a "grand" (more than 1,000 pounds) blue marlin is extremely rare and happens only a couple of times a year. Rizzuto told Hawaii News Now that he'd "caught the fish of a lifetime."
The allure of the grand catch has enamored professional and amateur anglers for decades. Ernest Hemingway is one of the most well-known hunters of grand blue marlin.
According to Marlin Magazine, the biggest marlin ever caught was in 1953, when angler Alfred Glassell Jr. reeled in a 1,560-ppund marlin off Cabo Blanco, Peru.
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