Fishermen stunned when they hooked this massive sea beast believed to be the biggest of its kind caught on East Coast

Two longtime Massachusetts fishermen initially thought they were reeling in a shark, but instead they caught a 1,200 lbs.marlin, believed to be the biggest of its kind ever hauled in on the East Coast.Damon Sacco, a seasoned charter fishing boat captain from the Bay State had been fishing for hours with his client on Wednesday when he caught a glimpse of a giant fin breaking the water’s surface about 100 miles off Cape Cod, MA.At first, Sacco thought it was a massive shark but then he “got a better look at it and thought, dang, that thing’s pointed” and assumed it was “too big for a marlin,” he recalled.To his surprise, the fisherman had caught a 1,260 pound Atlantic blue marlin that measured in at over 11 feet in length alongside his client, retiree Water Chapman.Chapman, a lifelong fisherman from Plymouth, MA., fought on rod and reel with the marlin for about three hours and said it was unquestionably the biggest fish he’s ever fought on a line before. Meanwhile, Sacco said his role for most of the stunning adventure was to “drive the bus around and yell at people.”The marlin’s bill left a couple of holes in the charter boat’s transform which Sacco considers “war marks.”After hauling the mammoth billfish back to shore in Falmouth, MA.

where an excited crowd was waiting, the fishermen believe it is the largest Atlantic blue marlin ever caught off the East Coast.“People fish their entire lives and never come close to a catch like this,” Falmouth local Katie Curran said. “Hats off to Captain Damon Sacco and the crew on the catch of a lifetime,” Curran quipped. The Massachusetts marlin weighed just 142 pounds shy of the world record for an Atlantic blue marlin caught in 1992 off the coast of Brazil, according to the International Game Fish Association records. More remarkably, however, is reeling in such an enormous catch off New England, according to Walt Golet, director of the University of Main Pelagic Fisheries Lab.“I don�...