Massachusetts fishermen thought they had spotted a shark before landing a 1,260-pound blue marlin after a three-hour battle, coming just 142 pounds short of the 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.

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