Molly Palmer Marlin Catch Weighs More Than Half a Ton
Molly Palmer, a 5 foot 9 inch woman, has caught a 12 foot marlin weighing more than half a ton while fishing in Hawaii.
Palmer, 28, was taking part in the Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament, and her teammates had put up $9,000 to enter last week. However, despite her unprecedented catch Palmer will not be winning the thousands of dollars in prize money as she needed to reel in the fish by herself.
However, she has said she was not interested in the prize money, nor world records, but was just there to fish. So she and her teammates grouped up to help reel in the massive marlin.
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Palmer has said, "The question was only can I land the fish or not. I didn't come here to set world records. I didn't even really come here to win money. I came here to catch fish and that's just what we were there to do," according to The Associated Press.
The huge Marlin weighed 1,022.5 pounds, which beats out the current world record of 950 pounds, according to tournament organizer Jody Bright.
"I've had people try to slide things past me for a whole lot less money, for a less important thing than a world record," Bright said, according to AP. "We don't have officials on the field like you do in baseball or football or anything like that. Everybody's playing on the open ocean playing field and since there's nobody there checking to see if you stepped out of bounds or any of that sort of stuff there's a whole lot of opportunity to do things nobody would know of."
The boat's captain, Neal Isaacs, explained that the team knew the fish was massive but had no idea it was anything like a world record.
