Westlake great-grandmother reels in trophy fish off Canada coast

Westlake great-grandmother reels in trophy fish off Canada coast

Source: theacorn

9/6/2024

It sounds like a proverbial fish story, but it’s true: an 89-year-old woman from Westlake Village caught a more than 62-pound halibut—just shy of the size limit for keeping—off the northern Pacific coast of Canada this summer.

Molly Zimmermann reeled in and boated the jumbo catch with the help of her husband Brian, 88. The couple, coming up on 61 years of marriage, were at the start of their 37th fishing trip to British Columbia’s Queen Charlotte Islands when Molly felt her line stuck on something that would take almost an hour to haul in.

Pacific halibut

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