A white sea bass weighing 63 pounds was reeled in by a California kid who barely weighs more than his catch.

"I thought it was a shark when I first saw it," 13-year-old Julian Her said about his lucky catch.

The teen, who lives in the Rio Oso area of Sutter County in Northern California, recently pulled the white sea bass from the water in Tomales Bay.

"I said, 'Uncle Chong, is that a bite?' And then the whole rod went down and we just all started screaming," he said.

Rinna Her, the boy's father, said they initially thought the fish was a halibut because that's what they were out there for.

Julian Her was fishing with his Dad, uncle and cousins as usual. When Julian Her was struggling to reel in his catch, they thought he was being dramatic.

"We were just kind of like, knock it off.

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