Massachusetts fishermen land 1,260-pound blue marlin, just short of world record

Two Massachusetts fishermen spent three hours fighting to reel in what they at first thought was a shark, but turned out to be likely the largest Atlantic blue marlins ever caught off the East Coast.

Damon Stacco said the day started off with no luck, then after he and client Walter Chapman loaded up the boat with yellowfin tuna, he saw a fin while fishing roughly 100 miles off Cape Cod.

A "huge dorsal," he wrote on his Instagram page. "Am I really seeing this? Four feet high but pointed.