151-pound marlin: Rare catch sets new Washington state record - The Daily Chronicle

151-pound marlin: Rare catch sets new Washington state record - The Daily Chronicle

PACIFIC OCEAN — An Oregon man on a tuna charter trip off the Washington coast landed the catch of a lifetime over the weekend. Tim Durheim, of Prineville, was fishing aboard the F/V Four Sea’Sons on Saturday, Aug. 15, roughly 40 miles off the Washington coast when he hooked up with something he knew wasn’t the albacore tuna they had been trolling for all morning. “We were trolling and it came up once hit, disappeared, then came back two minutes …