April 24, 2013 — A Texas teenager caught an eleven foot long, 759-pound marlin on a Make-A-Wish Foundation trip. Sterling Ellis, 19, is in remission from Hodgkin’s lymphoma is scheduled to undergo a bone marrow transplant had the fortune of seeing his wish come true.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. The foundation, as a aprt of a month-long celebration encourages people around the United States to donate dollars or airline miles to fund airline tickets for wishes that involve travel.
Captain Karl Adams began the story, “We just call it a blind strike out of nowhere. At first we just thought it was a tuna.”
“I was reeling it in, and then I saw this big black fin and then it just started going the opposite direction, taking my line,” the young Ellis explained, “My arm hurt a little bit and he’s like just keep reeling and I’m like, I don’t think I can any more. Not that it’s like pressure on me, but my arm is like locked up and I can’t really reel.”
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