HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire teenager on a deep-sea fishing journey this week hauled in a 177-pound (80 kilogram) Atlantic halibut, a fish so huge that it weighed greater than him and could possibly be a world report.
Jackson Denio, a 13-year-old from Hampton, New Hampshire, was fishing about 100 miles (161 kilometers) off the New England Coast on Cashes Ledge Monday morning when he caught the fish.
“I feel I screamed, actually,” mentioned Denio, who weighs round 120 kilos and is 5-foot-9-inches. “I don’t know precisely what occurred, however I used to be very excited.”
Denio had set out on Sunday with about 30 others on an in a single day constitution journey with Al Gauron’s Deep Sea Fishing and Whale Watching. After everybody had caught loads of pollock and different fish, Denio advised the crew he needed to catch a shark. They advised him to fish on the backside. Minutes after he dropped his hook with pollock on it, Denio obtained successful and knew he had one thing huge.
Denio fought the fish for about half-hour, bringing it close to the boat solely to have it dive again down. He was finally in a position to get the fish to the floor, guided by the crew and cheered on by fellow passengers who uttered loads of oohs and ahhs spiced with profanity as the scale of the fish turned clear. One individual even yelled out “Jackson, you’re an angel of a person.”
“I’m standing there watching him. Then impulsively the fish took off it, bit it and began pounding away,” mentioned Jim Walsh, the captain of the vessel that Denio was on. “I checked out him and I mentioned, have been you on the underside? And he goes, sure. And I mentioned, you don’t have a shark.”
Walsh mentioned he was most impressed with Denio’s composure.
“He didn’t let go as soon as. He by no means let anyone else contact the rod. And he labored him, labored him. Then finally, the fish begins to tire out,” Walsh mentioned. “Though he’s that huge, they go to tire. Then he obtained it as much as the floor. That’s after we appeared and went Oh my God. We have been all ecstatic.”
Earlier than the fish was carved up, Denio formally obtained it weighed and took images and video of the fish, and he has offered different details about his fishing gear that can go into an software for a world report with the Worldwide Sport Fish Affiliation. The household plans to file an software beneath the junior report for Atlantic halibut and one beneath line class that features all fish.
The affiliation didn’t reply to a request for extra data. Its web site lists as vacant the report for Atlantic halibut beneath the junior male class.
And whereas he’s relishing all the eye, Denio is itching get again out on the water once more — and catch one thing even greater.
“It makes me need to maintain fishing much more and try to beat the report if I can,” he mentioned.
