UNDATED (AP)- A Hawaii tournament fisher fought a 12-foot, half-ton marlin in the Pacific Ocean for more than four hours before she and her teammates got the monster fish out of the water – but she missed out on the glory and thousands of dollars in prize money.
28 year old Molly Palmer, would have needed to reel in the fish by herself in order for it to qualify as a valid catch for the
tournament, according to rules set by the International Game
Fishing Association.
Palmer’s fish weighed in at 1,022.5 pounds, well over the record
of 950 pounds for a woman using a 130-pound line.
