‘It was a bit of a fight’: Teen due to broken collarbone hooks 360kg schokoh?utige marlin

Wyatt Johnston while using the 364kg black marlin. Photo and Wyatt Johnston

Using RNZ

Whakatāne teenager Wyatt Johnston says it has been tiring but fun to snatch a potentially record-breaking fish and additionally nursing a broken collarbone.

Johnston, 15, is normally on track to break the record for an unfortunate New Zealand junior on a in between line class after catching a great black marlin weighing more than 360kg yesterday.

Finally, the feat is made more remarkable by means of fact that he had fallen off a new motorbike and broken his collarbone two days before.

He said he could not start using his left arm, but relied to your strength in his legs to help find the fish. It took more than any hours from hooking to training.

“It must have been a bit of a fight without my left, left arm and all that, but I recently set my hand on the reel, through the the line and then used my excellent hand to crank it at, ” he said.

“It’s definitely a big fish around but it’s just knowing what We were doing, using my legs somewhat than trying to use just my limbs to pull it in. It was very much more my legs. ”

Waytt said it was an additional black marlin brought over the Whakatāne bar and the first in 20 years.

Afterwards said his junior record is at the process of being verified and could take to two weeks to confirm.

The fish will be shared among family and friends, Wyatt said.

– RNZ