This little Canadian girl has quite a fish tale to tell.
Jenna Gavin, 12, landed a 618-pound tuna in Nova Scotia after a two-hour struggle with the gigantic fish.
The haul broke an International Game Fish Association record for largest tuna ever reeled in by a female youth, according to the Chronicle Herald newspaper. A French girl had the previous mark with a 430-pound tuna.
Jenna’s parents were with her, but didn’t lift a finger to help — so she could have that record.
“My only strategy was stamina,” said Jenna, who is 496 pounds lighter than the fish she scored. “I started slow, so that I would have energy at the end when it mattered.”
Not only did Jenna fight the tuna, she had to deal with a whale that swam by and nearly knocked her off her line.
“When I was in the middle of fighting it, a whale came extremely close to the line and it hit it when [the whale] went up out of the water and it bumped the line,” Jenna told the CBC. “That was a big jolt and it really hurt and he put me up and then he put me down.”
Mom and Dad couldn’t be more proud.
“It was neat adventure for the two of us and it was definitely a challenge for her and it was a challenge for me to basically just urge her on,” mom Chandra Gavin said.