5-foot-9-inch Molly Palmer catches 12 foot Marlin,misses record for half-ton catch
The honor system kept Molly Palmer from nabbing a world record. She had help from ship mates landing the half-ton Marlin.
“The question was only can I land the fish or not,” Palmer told The Associated Press. “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.”
There’s video of the Marlin being off-loaded from the boat here.
A 5-foot-9-inch woman tournament fishing in Hawaii waters fought a 12-foot marlin more than four hours before getting it on her team’s boat and weighing it at more than a half-ton — a would-be world record.
But 28-year-old Molly Palmer is missing out on the glory and thousands in tournament prize money for one pesky reason: Her team’s honor code.
Cheating would have been easy and tempting. The Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament runs in part on an honor system and Palmer, her captain and crewmates put up roughly $9,000 to enter last week.
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I like the new look, Dan!
Best of luck with this.
Cheers!
I know the fish goes to local charities, and I am all for eating fish, but those big marlin are breeders and I am also for catch and release of trophy billfish.
thankfully the marlin had just released her eggs…. or she may have been closer to 1,200#.