The Longest Marlin Thirty-year-0ld Floridian Robert Arrington was swimming off his boat 25 miles off Panama when he saw a beautiful fish, a marlin bigger than any he'd ever seen before—eleven feet long.

So what did he do?

He killed it, of course. And now he has its bill and a world record to make himself proud. And a video of himself shooting something that is so remarkable while alive, and so very sad after it has been killed.

Arrington doesn't see it that way, though. For him, it's something to tell the kids and grandkids about. And maybe they'll say to him, "Gee, Dad, it must have been cool when there were fish in the oceans...."


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