With bare hands, boy catches yellowtail off Manhattan Beach pier
Cody Martin, 16, caught a 40-pound yellowtail off the Manhattan Beach pier. Photo by Alene Tchekmedyian Cody Martin, 16, was looking for a fish to catch on Thursday morning. Perhaps a shark or a bat ray that he could later release into the ocean. He wanted to show the kids at the Roundhouse Aquarium’s summer camp – run by his father, Roundhouse Director Eric Martin – a live fish from off the pier. So when his friend thought she saw something through her binoculars at about 10 a.m. off the pier, he was intrigued. “Let me see,” he said, grabbing the binoculars. He peered through. It’s just a buoy, he thought. But 20 minutes later, he saw something moving again, about 100 yards off the pier. “I saw the black top of the head, I was like, ‘It’s a thresher shark!’ because it had a narrow top of the head,” Cody said. It looked injured. He figured dolphins had been playing with it. So naturally, his instincts were to help. “I’m sprinting down to pier to get my surfboard and my suit on and go out there and go try to save it,” Cody said. “Me and my dad are always the first people to go run into any situation like that.” Once Cody paddled out toward the animal, he heard his father yell…
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