Black Marlin fishing in rough seas of Cairns

850 pound Black Marlin successfully tagged and released off Cairns, Australia. Some awesome jumps and a fantastic closeup at the end of the fight. This was filmed during the 40th Aniversary Black Marlin Tag and Release tournament at the end of September 2006. Location is Linden Banks North East of Port Douglas, about 80 Km north of Cairns. Angler is Matthew Graham, boat is MV JoeJoe and skip is Barry "Cranky" Cross

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Fishing
• reef
• gamefish
• Marlin
• deep
• sea

[esox66]

You release big fish so they can reproduce more big fish dummy

[ozzymongerlwtfm8]

only if they worked there ass of for manny years , saved there cash and bought a half a million dollour boat and could aford to fule it to the tune of $1500 a day , and if there were starving people here in australia , we dont live in some shit hole egypt here , every one has enuf food

[Freadwalker]

wie übel petri heil

[bcowan1991]

Nice fish!!!! She's a beauty... Down here in jamaica we usually Get blue marlins

[jctech0]

Dude, epic tag and release! Rough waters, giant fish (dangerous game???, yeah, probably), and the comentator's input, "YES!, yes!"

[Chuckles123thefish]

@hottropic1000 I agree these guys are cruel. Sports fishing benefits no-one but the hoons who participate in it. I think the most disgusting thing I have seen on TV is this guy jumping from a helicopter onto a Marlin in the ocean and riding it for a few seconds. It was part of a promo for a fishing show in NZ. What a bunch of wallies to think they own the sea. No wonder they end up sunk or eaten by sharks or morons for the rest of their lives.

[Chuckles123thefish]

i always wonder why people go out to kill a fish when they don't look as if they are starving or need to be chasing some poor marlin down while it fights for its life. It might be fun for you, but it certainly shows how cruel some people can be when they do this kind of fishing for sport. The marlin probably knew it was going to get eaten by the Great White.

[hottropic1000]

if this was any other animal ,bar none ,you would be prosecuted for cruely ,how do you pricks get away with this ???

[KidODeath500]

was this and the 450 lbr eaten by shark caught in the same day and what lb test was he using?

[krazbar1]

i wanan go up there some time im in townsville

[randomenvelope]

you also need to be lucky, I've heard sharks love marlin, and many many many people have gotten their marlin eaten.