New Hampshire fisherman reels in record-breaking 1,116-pound bluefin tuna, smashing state mark

A New Hampshire fisherman caught the state’s largest bluefin tuna weighing over 1,100 pounds — smashing a record that had stood for more than a decade. Brandon McGirl was hoping to reel in anything when he boarded the Out of Line, a Savage Charters NH boat captained by Jamie Savage, on Saturday for an overnight fishing trip out of Rye Harbor on the New Hampshire Seacoast, WMUR reported. “It was very difficult conditions to try and fish. It was a little bit rougher than we were hoping for,” McGirl told the outlet. The crew chased the fish for about a...