A trio of Massachusetts teenagers reeled in a massive bluefin tuna weighing more than the three anglers combined and measuring more than 10 feet in length.
In early October off the coast of Provincetown, Massachusetts, Captain Dan Smith and his crew Kyle Falle and Jim McCormack returned to dock with the catch of a lifetime.
McCormack shares, “When we hooked up, there’s nothing like it. This is the biggest adrenaline rush, we’re all going crazy.”
It wasn’t until about a half hour into the fight that the young men realized what they had hooked. They explained in a news outlet interview that they initially thought it was a shark. When it finally reached the surface after an epic battle, “It looked like a surfboard going across the water, it was huge,” Falle said.
The anglers chartered a boat that day with Julia Nicole Charters, a charter company that later shared a Facebook video of the teens struggling to get the giant fish on deck. According to its website, the tuna is listed as one of the largest caught in the area.
“We just started pulling it into the boat and the hauler just seized up,” Smith shares. “And it didn’t want to pull the fish up anymore and I never had that happen.”
When they eventually got the equipment working and hoisted the “beast” on deck, the young anglers could finally consider their fish “caught.”
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