Photos of Huge Pacific Blue Marlin - page 3 of 3

���� Largest Blue Marlin Ever Caught? Pictured below is a massive blue marlin that was caught off Okinawa by a commercial fisherman using a handline.� It is said to have "bottomed" a one ton (1,000 kg) set of scales meaning the fish weighed more than 2,200 lbs.� Easily seen in this photo is a primary distinguishing characteristic of blue marlin� (vs. black marlin).� The flap of skin covering the throat and below the gills and the branchiostegal bones supporting it are about half the length of the similar flap of skin and branchiostegals of a black marlin.� In a black marlin this flap of skin would extend back almost as far as the rear edge of the operculum or main gill cover.��������                (Photo, IGFA)

Largest Blue Marlin on Rod and Reel Above, this is known as "Choy's Monster."� It weighed 1,805 lbs. or 820 kg. when weighed in Honolulu in 1970.� Capt. Cornelius Choy and his daughter Gail acting as deckhand had taken 6 holiday makers out for a days sport fishing.� None were experienced anglers.� After fighting the fish for some time and passing the rod around, Capt. Chow finally took the rod and brought the fish to the boat where his daughter wired it.� Naturally, it could not qualify for an IGFA world record, but it does stand to this day as the largest blue ever taken on rod and reel.� (Photo, IGFA)

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Above, a 455-lb. blue marlin caught in VaVau, Tonga, by our friend Cyd Nielsen pictured here with her husband, Capt. Skip Nielsen (center) of Islamorada, FL, and the crew.�(Photo, courtesy Cyd and Skip Nielsen)

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Daily "Kill-o-Meter"

Longliners fish most heavily during the periods when the moon is brightest. So, this real-time image of the moon phase shows when the kill of swordfish is greatest and least. It also shows when the kill of blue marlin, white marlin, sailfish, sharks, tunas, sea turtles, marine mammals and a host of other marine life is also greatest - even though they are not even targeted. For more, see link above.

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