Massachusetts crew lands 1,260-pound blue marlin, misses world record

A routine offshore fishing trip off Massachusetts became an extraordinary battle when charter captain Damon Sacco and lifelong angler Walter Chapman encountered a colossal Atlantic blue marlin roughly 100 miles off Cape Cod. The enormous fish measured more than 11 feet long and weighed an astonishing 1,260 pounds (571.5 kilograms) when it was brought back to the docks in Falmouth. The remarkable catch is believed to be the largest Atlantic blue marlin ever landed off the US East Coast, although its official record status still requires verification. Its size becomes even more impressive when compared with the recognised world record for the species. Weighing just 142 pounds less than the 1,402-pound record caught off Brazil in 1992, the Massachusetts marlin came remarkably close to becoming a new world champion. For Sacco and Chapman, what began as a routine day on the water became an encounter with one of the largest blue marlin ever recorded in the region.Damon Sacco went through a three-hour tussle with a giant blue marlinThe encounter unfolded aboard Sacco's charter boat, Castafari, while the crew was fishing around Atlantis Canyon, an underwater feature near the edge of the co...