Fishing stories are infamous, especially the big ones that–somehow–got away.
This one–a 220-kilogram bluefin tuna–didn’t.
Ten-year-old Koen Norton was on his family’s charter boat Sunday off Naufrage Harbour, in northeastern Prince Edward Island, when the big one bit.
Koen, who has been practising his technique all summer, fought for an hour to land the tuna, which was more that four times his weight.
“You do a squat, and then when you go up you reel, and then you keep doing it,” he said.
“When he stops pulling me to rest, I just reel it to him so he can’t stop and get a rest.”
Because he was aiming for the record, he had to do it all on his own without any help.
Koen’s father, Greg, says the catch qualifies as a new record for largest tuna landed using the stand-up technique by a child 10 and under, but it still has to be confirmed.
Greg Norton says the family is not sending in the application papers just yet, adding Koen was back out on the water Thursday trying to land an even bigger tuna.
Greg Norton said the previous record was set earlier this month by two brothers from Tasmania, who landed two tunas weighing in at 112 kilograms and 122 kilograms.
He said the record before that was only 27 kilograms.
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