Make-A-Wish teen catches 759-pound marlin: A Houston teen battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma caught a 759-pound marlin while on a Hawaii trip sponsored by the Make-A-Wish foundation, it was reported.
“My arm hurt a little bit, and he’s like, ‘Just keep reeling,’ and I’m like, ‘I don’t think I can.’ Not that it’s like pressure on me, but my arm is locked up and I can’t really reel,” Steling Ellis, 19, of Texas, told KVUE television.
Ellis was diagnosed with the illness when he was 17, reported the Houston Chronicle.
He told the paper that it took three to four people to reel in the 11-foot-long fish.
“It was intense,” Ellis was quoted as saying.
ABC News reported that he got to take home the marlin’s bill as a trophy. The rest of the fish will be sold by the charter boat to help pay for the fuel.
“He was a little tired and that was half the battle, bringing it back in the boat. We’re one of the few boats that don’t have a transom door but we do have a Jim pole to get him in. And it took all my deckhands and myself and two kids that are not that big to get it in the boat,” boat captain Karl Adams was quoted by UPI as saying.
