Boy reels in colossal 118-pound white marlin on Nantucket

Boy reels in colossal 118-pound white marlin on Nantucket

Source: Fox News

8/23/2024

Credit: Elliot Sudal

A 12-year-old boy from Weston, Massachusetts, reeled in a massive white marlin off the coast of Nantucket on Aug. 16.

Stone Fornes caught the 118.2-pound fish, potentially breaking a junior world record, while fishing with angler Elliot Sudal.

The current record for a white marlin is 102 pounds, which was caught off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in 2011, according to the International Game Fish Association.

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