Marlin are a group catch. On boats we use big steel and wood fighting chairs, and you need a leaderman and a gaffleman with great captain. It can take an hour to land a 600-1000lb Marlin. My biggest was 730lbs, and that was 20 years ago. We use a 41’ Regulator fishing boat rigged out specifically for Marlin and Tuna. My point is, this was an incredible job by these guys. It’s not a wold class marlin, but doing it on land is incredible.
I can’t imagine how great that must have felt from beginning to the end. Well done by a great group of fishermen. Love to see more is why I hit that like and subscribe can’t wait to see more!!!
simply amazing, the accomplishment, the teamwork, my outmost respect. That would be a dream to have a go at this. I wonder, could you contact these boats that come to close by radio? Do some of them maybe even think you need help and com closer because you wave your arms and scream??
Usually they can't see the fish or the line! I'm not sure if anyone ever has bothered to carry a UHF down but it's a good idea! They sometimes use a sound horn or whistle 😂
Probably would not have survived after that fight. Usually, when caught in a boat, the fish I held against the current, revived as the water flows over the gills, then released whn ready. Just my opinion of course.
Definitely a few bigger ones have been landed, Still amazing! Aussies been doing this for almost 60 years now and people still think morning tide is top fishing....
It would be so much easier if you guys fishing the tubes had a radio so u could let the boaters know u are hooked up, instead of just screaming like wankers and expecting them to be able to hear u. It’s hard enough to se your balloons floating around let alone hear u yelling out
This may be in Jervis Bay, Australia. I think this may be the spot where they had the WW II torpedo tubes installed as part of the defense setup against a possible Japanese invasion.
Incrível enquanto foi uma briga justa, depois de trazer até a margem e provar que conseguiu por que matar e retirar uma matriz dessa da água, terrível decisão! Sem necessidade. ( Portuguese)
because its a fish and we eat fish. we have canines. its much better to kill and eat ("go peter kill and eat"-bible verse) and respect the life taken than buy meat at a supermarket.
@@peterRobinson10101 One mistake doesn't justify the other, and obviously you didn't hunt to eat, it's not your need. You are as consumerist as the one who goes shopping at the market
There's a extremely low chance a fish of that size after a 59min fight surviving.. It would of most likely sunk too the bottom, it's a pelagic fish it needs the water going through it to provide oxygen.. We don't get that luxury as you know it all boaties do. There's no dint in the marlin population and a fish of that size is a scupper compared too the ones they catch on the GBR.. So killing one land based which you are even lucky to land one in your life time isn't going to effect that 😅🤗
You guys may not have any issues with your population but we have seen a decrease in our blue marlin (east coast USA). We use bigger reels (80w minimum- usually 130s) to land them faster and avoid killing them. Just a thought.
@@jamescfishingWhy do boat fishermen feel the need to criticize a totally legal harvest and what’s probably a once in a lifetime catch from shore (or kayaks) when it’s boats that are putting the most pressure on billfish populations? If you’re catching and releasing marlin from boats then I guarantee you’re killing more fish than these guys are. Even if you do everything right, the survival rate of your fish isn’t going to be 100%
@@alexanderren1097 I wouldn't bother replying mate. The recreational American saltwater fishery probably kills more tonnage of fish than the rest of the global population put together. Have a look at some of their striped bass videos, like UK mackerel fishing. Your points regarding length of fight and the likelihood of the fish sinking are spot on. Given he reckons their Blue Marlin population is decreasing (it's probably not, they will just have moved for a better food source, Blues and BFT do it all the time,keeps the alarmist element of Marine Biologists well funded ) maybe what they are doing isn't so good after all.
Just use heavier reels and don’t stick a gaff in it. Pretty sure “us boat fisherman” give billfish a better chance than than anyone gaffing a billfish. We tag and track them and the fish live long after the releases. Kill your fish, whatever. I’d like to come catch a black one day down there but maybe I’ll save my money.
@@badm.d dont agree they had plenty of oppotunity to cut line as close to the hook, they had no intention of releasing it and yes u are right it would ave died if they tried to release it due to multiple gaff wounds they inflicted on fish, purely just a trophy fish...
Why so much joy screaming when a fisherman hooks a fish and that animal is im exstreamly pain ? First be serious as fisherman and never fish a fish just for fun and never fish those big animals if you dont eat them bud you do it just for fun. Remember that thanks to those big fish who can bring many new once to hold the colony in balance..
