Reply With QuoteI don't know what the line class is but the largest recorded marlin was caught off cairns and it was approximatelt 1200 lb, I will try to get some exact details and post them here
hi ausfishers
Does anybody know what the australian record is for the heaviest marlin on lightest line?
Thanks
I don't know what the line class is but the largest recorded marlin was caught off cairns and it was approximatelt 1200 lb, I will try to get some exact details and post them here
OK here we go:
Species: Black Marlin
Angler: Michael McGrath
Line Wt: 60kg
Fish Wt: 654.08
Location: Cairns
Date: 1 November 1973
Species: Blue Marlin
Angler: Melanie Kisbee
Line Wt: 37 kg
Fish Wt: 452.2kg
Location: Batemans Bay NSW
Date: 14 March 1999
Species: Striped Marlin
Angler: Bill Schnoder
Line Wt: 37kg
Fish Wt: 191.5kg
Location: Merimbula NSW
Date: 28 March 1992
All information was taken from www.gfaa.asn.au/html/5rec_01.htm
Also, taken from the same site, the lightest line class and heaviest fish:
33kg Black Marlin on just 2kg line!!
59.5kg Blue Marlin on 8 kg line
65kg Striped Marlin on 4kg line.
The rest of the details for these captured can be veiwed at the link posted above
33kg Black Marlin on 2kg line....WOW !! you'd have to wait for the thing to die of old age and then reel it in softly softly. That's awesome.Originally Posted by Scott nthQld
would it be unlikely or not in the records to catch a heavy maring with 15kg
marlin sorry with 15kg line on the spool
To catch a marlin on 15kg is fairly un realistic. Sure you would get them up to maybe, 250kg, with difficulty but any bigger and the runs they would take would cause water pressure to pop the hook.
Ive never understood the water pressure thing, anyone care to enlighten?
Matt
http://www.gfaa.asn.au/html/1aus_01....Search+Records
As you can see on this link the largest Black marlin on 15kg line was caught of Cairns in 1980. The fish weighted in at 489.5kg (32 times heavier than the line breaking strain!!).
Although fighting a fish that size would take hours and be aware that if you did manage to capture a fish over 100kg you are in for one hell of a long fight and the fish will most likely die after the struggle. So if you do plan on catching something like that you better have a lot of freinds, relatives that you can off load some marlin meat to.
The water pressure thing has to do with surface tension. You've seen those videos of the little birds with big feet walking on top of the water and all that sort of thing? That is surface tension. Imagine you have 400m of your 15kg line out. If you put calipers on that line and measured it it is going to have a certain cross sectional are isn't it. Times that are by 400m then pull that 400m through the water at a certain speed and you might find you have something like 7kg of water pressure drag. Now if that fish gets 800m out on you might find the water drag is now something like 14kg and allowing for a slight loss for bad knots or old abrasion in your line once you hit 850m of line out your line parts even if you had backed your drag back to nothing. On light line like 4kg and below you might find it hard to get say anymore than 4-500m out before popping off. One thing to try and do is lift your rod up high to keep it out of the water but catenry action (gravity) will still see it hit the water somewhere, you can't keep a couple of hundred metres of line out of the water. Now when a Marlin is jumping on reasonable line classes it pays to dip your rod to the water to keep more line in the water and to help keep the hook in. So much to learn, so little time! Join a club, get out on some boats, help with the washing afterwards and chip in for fuel and you will learn a lot more on the water talking to people in the know than by being on here.
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