Father-son duo land 580-pound fish

(Scott Brady)

Conor and Scott Brady with the big fish.

By Globe Staff

It's a fishing story that a Holliston man and his son aren't likely to forget. Early on a recent Saturday morning, the two hauled in a 580-pound bluefin tuna.

Scott Brady, 57, and his son, Conor, 15, were aboard Brady's 32-foot boat, about a mile off Provincetown at about 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 16, when they hooked the big fish. The 98-inch-long fish fought for 40 minutes before the two could haul it into the boat.

Brady, a commercial fishermen who also works in sales for CBS TV stations, said it's not the biggest fish he's ever caught in the 19 years he's been fishing. He caught an 800-pounder once. (The record, he said, is nearly 1,500 pounds.)

But he said it was a new experience for his son, who had only caught smaller fish previously.

"This is his first giant bluefin tuna. ... He did a marvelous job for a 15-year-old," he said.

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