A 12-year-old boy from Weston, Massachusetts, reeled in a massive white marlin off the coast of Nantucket on Aug. 16.

Stone Fornes caught the 118.2-pound fish, potentially breaking a junior world record, while fishing with angler Elliot Sudal. 

The current record for a white marlin is 102 pounds, which was caught off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in 2011, according to the International Game Fish Association.

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Fornes told Fox News Digital that it was a tough 90-minute battle reeling in the fish.

"This marlin was an acrobat," he said. 

Elliot Sudal, who has been a captain on Nantucket for 12 years, works with various shark research organizations.

"It’s wildly impressive that Stone was able to catch this fish … from spotting it to getting it to eat a bait, let alone fighting it for an hour and a half," Sudal told Fox News Digital. 

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"It was an epic battle, with the marlin jumping completely out of the water several times, and super technical keeping the boat positioned correctly."

Sudal said he is grateful to the fishing community for coming together to transport the fish and assist with the necessary paperwork associated with the world record.

"I feel like most 12-year-olds are playing on iPads, while [Stone’s] off catching world records," Sudal said. "He got some serious street cred on the docks for this one."

Fornes said he typically releases most of what he catches, but this fish was cooked with the help of local restaurant CRU Oyster Bar Nantucket.

"Unfortunately, in order to confirm a world record, you need to keep the fish," he told Fox News Digital. 

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"We spent a few days getting all the measurements and a scientific review before sharing it with a bunch of people and eating it. It was the best meal of my life."

CRU chef Eric Korsh cooked the massive fish for Fornes and his friends (see recipe below).

The angler's parents, Don and Lauren Fornes, told Fox News Digital that fishing is more than just a hobby for their son.

"He’s poured everything into this passion," Don Fornes said. "And he’s learned that some days, you come up short, but if you stay after it, you can eventually win big."

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Lauren Fornes pointed out that the entire Nantucket team worked to get a certified scale, keep ice on the fish and find a scientist to confirm the species.  

"I had no idea that logging a world record would be such a complex and expansive process," she said. "Stone has grown in ways he never imagined through this experience."

Fornes enjoys reading fishing reports and making friends with more experienced fishermen, he said.

"Stone’s not just about the catch; he’s deeply concerned about the future of our fisheries," Don Fornes noted.

"When he does keep a fish, he’s passionate about sharing the meat with the wide range of people he’s befriended in the Nantucket community."

The boy's father added, "Lauren and I think about how this experience might transfer to other life pursuits when he grows up, but we know this kid is going to chart his own course. He may be an old man on the sea."

An International Game Fish Association representative told Fox News Digital that the record confirmation process typically takes between four and six weeks.

"Once received, the application will be pending and will enter the official review process," the representative said. "Once it has been reviewed, a decision will be made on the approval of the record."

Marlin

Salad 

Persillade Stuffed Tomato

1. Gently toss all salad ingredients.

2. Blend all tomato ingredients, leaving the tomatoes aside, in a food processor until fine to create parsley bread crumbs. 

3. Fill the tomatoes with the parsley bread crumbs and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, until the breadcrumb is golden.

4. Lightly coat marlin in olive oil, salt and pepper.

5. Cook over medium heat for four minutes on each side, using a heavy-bottom cast iron pan.

6. Assemble, serve and enjoy immediately.

The Trump campaign blasted Vice President Kamala Harris as a "liar" and "desperate" after her campaign released a TV ad claiming former President Trump’s policies brought in a "violent crime wave," telling Fox News Digital Harris is an "open border, weak-on-crime liberal." 

The Harris campaign, just a day after the vice president accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago, released a television ad focused on crime. The ad claims on Harris’ watch, "violent crime went down." 

"Her record as district attorney and attorney general — locking up child abusers, online predators and violent offenders and shutting down international drug cartels," the ad says. "Under Donald Trump? A violent crime wave. And Trump ordered MAGA extremists to kill the bipartisan border security deal.

"Trump just talks tough. Kamala Harris is tough."

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Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt called Harris "a liar." 

"The truth is Kamala and Biden reversed every single one of President Trump’s effective immigration policies immediately upon taking office and opened the border to criminals, terrorists and drug cartels," Leavitt told Fox News Digital. "If Ms. Border Czar Harris really wanted to secure the border, why doesn’t she go back to Washington and do it today?

"She won’t, because she’s an open border, weak-on-crime liberal."

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign took to X, formerly Twitter, and wrote that violent crime "isn’t down, it’s up almost 25% across 66 major U.S. cities while Kamala has presided over three of the four most murderous years in the last 25 years."

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"Under Kamala, illegals she let into the country are brutally raping and murdering our citizens," the campaign continued, adding that, as district attorney, Harris "was known for being soft on crime, while San Francisco had the highest murder rate in a decade."

The campaign said Harris became "the model" for "Soros-backed prosecutors across the country." 

"Drug cartels haven't been ‘shut down,’ they've ravaged our communities with deadly drugs flowing across the border in unprecedented numbers," the campaign continued. "The Sinaloa Cartel has made record profit under Kamala." 

As for the bipartisan border bill, the Trump campaign said it would have "put millions of illegals on the fast track to citizenship."

Trump visited the border in Arizona Thursday. 

Trump’s campaign has referenced Americans like Jocelyn Nungaray, Laken Riley and Rachel Morin, who were all allegedly killed by illegal immigrants.

Two Venezuelan nationals — 21-year-old Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and 26-year-old Franklin Jose Peña Ramos — have been charged with capital murder in the death of 12-year-old Nungaray. The two men crossed illegally into the U.S. earlier this year and are accused of strangling the pre-teen to death in June.

Jose Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan illegal immigrant, was charged with 22-year-old Riley’s murder. Ibarra entered the U.S. through El Paso, Texas, in 2022 and was freed on border parole. He initially lived in New York City, where he was arrested for allegedly endangering a child prior to his move to Athens, Georgia.

Ibarra has been charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call and concealing the death of another in connection to Riley's murder.

The El Salvadoran national allegedly responsible for Morin’s death, 23-year-old Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, was also in the country illegally, and, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was caught by Border Patrol three times within a matter of days in January 2023 and February 2023 and sent back to Mexico under Title 42 each time. 

He then successfully entered the U.S. as a gotaway, meaning he entered without being inspected, admitted or paroled by a U.S. immigration officer, in February 2023 near El Paso, Texas.

During his visit to Arizona Thursday, Trump invited Angel Moms to share stories about victims of illegal migrant crime. 

"We've done a lot of trips to the border over the years and told a lot of stories about border victims, including the stories of the amazing Angel Moms," Trump said. "Time doesn't heal all wounds, but we have never seen anything in terms of the volume and viciousness like what we are seeing now in our country.

"It is an onslaught of violence." 

A Trump campaign official told Fox News Digital the campaign's strategy will be to "continue to hammer home immigration and Kamala’s dereliction of duty at the border."