By Harriet Alexander and James Gordon For Dailymail.com
02:59 21 Jun 2023, updated 03:03 21 Jun 2023
- Greg McCoy is the captain of the fishing boat Sensation, which on Saturday landed a 619lb marlin – making his crew, they thought, $3.5 million richer
- Yet organizers of the North Carolina tournament ruled that their fish was ineligible because it had been apparently bitten by a shark
- McCoy and the crew have launched an appeal and hired lawyers: they claim far more ‘mutilated’ fish have won in previous years, and the bite was tiny
The captain of a fishing boat which was denied the $3.5 million prize for reeling in the biggest fish at a North Carolina tournament has insisted the organizers were wrong to disqualify them, and vowed to fight for the prize.
Greg McCoy’s boat, Sensation, was given a rapturous…
