North Carolina angler catches 212-pound bluefin tuna while riding a jet ski off the Outer Banks

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Every fisherman wants a story, and Hunter Hicks now has one that sounds completely made up. Except it’s all on video.

The North Carolina angler was fishing solo off the Outer Banks when he hooked a 212-pound bluefin tuna. That’s a good day on the water in any event. But especially so if you’re on a jetski.

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With no boat and no crew, it was an all-out battle. Because once that tuna took the bait, it didn’t just fight — it dragged him nearly 10 miles offshore.

"At that point, I was almost 10 miles offshore, and (could barely see land)," Hicks told WTKR. "I don’t have a chart plotter or GPS when my phone dies, but I know how to make it in, I’m a waterman, but still, in my mind I was starting to get a little scared. But I knew if I would’ve let go of that fish, nobody would’ve believed me."

So he held on.

Built like a torpedo, fights like a freight train. This is what 200+ pounds of bluefin looks like up close. (Getty Images)

Hicks fought the tuna for more than two hours, by himself, without a fighting belt or any of the usual setup you’d expect for a fish that size.

"I would say the hardest fish I’ve ever caught in my life, by far, the way I did it, on the Jet Ski… it was just me or the beast," he said.

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Eventually, he got the fish under control, gaffed it and secured it with a rope. Then came the part that somehow sounds even crazier.

He towed the tuna back.

After hours offshore, Hicks dragged the 200-plus-pound tuna behind his jet ski all