101 of the Largest Deep Sea Fish Ever Caught

1. Caught in 1953 off the Cabo Blanco waters this Black Marlin  still reigns as the largest Marlin ever caught. It weighed 1,025 pounds. The angler was Alfred Glassel, Jr and he landed this Marlin through trolling using Mackerel as his bait.


The huge Black Marlin that was caught off the Cabo Blanco waters in 1953 still reigns as the largest Marlin ever caught.

2. The Bluefin that landed it in the top second position was landed in 1979 by Ken Fraser from Aulds Cove. This Atlantic Bluefin weighed 1496 pounds. The technique that Ken Fraser adopted to catch this record Bluefin was trolling with Mackerel as the bait.
3. One such fisherman was Paulo Amorim who caught the largest Atlantic Blue Marlin ever. This record breaking Marlin weighed 1402 pounds on the scale. The record Marlin was caught using a Moldcraft Lure by trolling from the waters in Vitoria, Spain.
4. The largest Pacific Blue Marlin that was landed was from the Kaaiwi Point in 1982 by Jay de Beaubein. The Marlin was reeled in using trolling with Kita bait and it scaled to 1375 pounds.
5. The largest Swordfish that was caught and recorded weighed 1182 pounds. Louis Marron was the angler who reeled in this gargantuan Swordfish from Iquique, Northern Chile in 1953 using trolling with a Bonito as the bait.
6. In 2012, Guy Yocom caught the largest Yellowfin Tuna that has ever been recorded. This huge fish that was caught from the waters of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Using a Melton rod and bait fishing with chunk Guy Yocom was able to land this massive tuna that weighed 426 pounds.
7. Max Domecq in 2003 caught the largest recorded Tarpon that stands at an enormous 286 pounds. This huge monster was fished out from the waters of Rubane. Max used mullet as bait with still fishing.
8. It was Carl Stewart in 1947 who landed the largest Pacific Sailfish ever recorded. A colossal Sailfish of 220 pounds was pulled out of the waters of Santa Cruz Island Ecuador.
9. The biggest Wahoo ever caught was from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and this world record is held by an avid fisherwoman Sara Hayward. In 2005 Sara reeled in a Wahoo weighing 183pounds using trolling and this record still stands undefeated.
10. The world record catch of a Dorado was made by Manuel Salazar in 1976. He reeled in a gigantic Dorado of 86 pounds from the Papagayo Gulf in Costa Rica. The method used in this record catch was trolling, with soft plastic squid.
11. In August 1986, Mundus and Donnie Braddick brought in the largest fish EVER caught by rod and reel. Using 150-pound test line, the pair reeled in a 3,427-pound Great White Shark!
12. Alfred Dean caught a 2,664-pound great white shark off the coast of southern Australia. Amazingly, it only took Dean 50 minutes to reel in this monster. More amazing – he was only using 130-pound test line!
13. Cloyce Tippet caught an 80 pound roosterfish off the coast of Cabo Blanco, Peru on June 13, 1954 using an Ashaway line; Penn Senator reel and Bob Kleiser glass rod.
14. After a 45-minute battle, Siegfried Dickermann caught an 88lb. 2 oz albacore in the waters of Gran Canaria, Spain. Bait – live mackerel.
15. Paulo Amorin caught a 1,402 lb. 2 oz blue Marlin in Vitoria, Brazil on February 29, 1992. He was using a white Softhead lure, and the battle lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes.
16. On a October 26, 1979 in Aulds Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada, Ken Fraser caught an Atlantic Bluefin Tuna weighing in at 1,496 lb. using trolled mackerel.
17. A 435 lb. big-eyed tuna was caught by Dr. Russell Lee on April 17, 1957 in Cabo Blanco, Peru. He spent 55 minutes reeling the tuna aboard.
18. Also in Cabo Blanco, Peru, Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. caught a black marlin weighing 1,560.5 lb. and measuring 174 inches. The fish was caught on August 4, 1953.
19. After a 15-minute battle, James M. Hussy caught a 31lb 12oz bluefish in the waters of the Hatteras Inlet in North Carolina.
20. On October 26, 1962, Brian Batchelor caught a 19.5 lb. bonefish in Zululand, South Africa.
21. Not to leave the women unrepresented, Mrs. Jane Haywood caught a 52 lb. 6 oz. Pacific Snook. It took 30 minutes of reeling using a Wright & McGill line; Penn Spinfisher reel and a Wright & McGill No. B95H rod.
22. On May 20, 1961 and after a 50-minute fight, Lynn Joyner caught a 680 lb. Goliath grouper in Fernandina Beach, Florida.
23. Weighing in at 109 lb. 2 oz. this large California yellowtail was caught in Ohara, Chiba, Japan by Masakazu Tabiwaki on October 24, 2009, after dust a 12-minute battle.
24. Another shout out to the ladies! On November 30, 1986, Ms. Jeanne Woods caught a 44 lb. 1 oz great barracuda. The 55-minute battle took place in Groote Eylandt, N.T., Australia.
25. After a 65-minute battle, Richard Lane reeled in a 557 lb. 3 oz. giant black sea bass in the waters of Catalina Island, California on January 7, 1962.
26. On November 19, 2010, Hideyuki Nemoto was fishing in Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan. After a 40-minute battle, he reeled in a 156 lb. 14 oz. greater amberjack.
27. In Dampier Archipelago, Australia, on August 6, 2000, Wayne Brown caught a narrowbarred mackerel weighing 80 lb. 3 oz. using a lure of garfish.
28. Weighing in at 135 lb. 9 oz., the cobia caught be Peter Goulding was caught in Shark Bay, W.A., Australia on July 9, 1985.
29. On the Seymore River Estuary, Queensland, Australia on June 12, 1996, Ms. Esme Henderson caught a 77 lb. 2 oz. giant trevally.
30. On March 14, 1989, Dick Love caught a 51 lb. Pacific cubera snapper in Isla de Cano, Costa Rica. He was using blue runner bait, and spent 20 minutes reeling in the snapper.
31. Renato Fiedler was fishing on December 14, 2002 in Ilha do Mel, Paranagua, Brazil when he reeled in a 60 lb. permit using shrimp twin – tail/jig.
32. After only a 20-minute battle on February 20, 1994, Ms. Bernadette Nicolson reeled in a 128 lb. 1 oz. Atlantic Sailfish in Luanda, Angola using a Moldcraft 8-inch hooker.
    
33. Using a stingray for bait, Bucky Dennis reeled in a 1,280-pound hammerhead shark from the waters of Boca Grande, Florida. This May 23, 2006 battle took 5.5 hours!
34. On May 11, 1979, angler Billy Pate reeled in a 182lb. Tarpon in Homosassa, Florida.
35. On February 29, 1992, Ms. Cheryl Adams caught a 634 lb. 14 oz. mako shark in Port Stephens, Australia.
36. On April 23, 1999, Robert Cunningham, Jr. caught a 73 lb. 10 oz. cobia in waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Alabama.
37. After a 45-minute battle, on November 7, 1984, David Deuel caught a 94lb. 2 oz. red drum in Avon, North Carolina.
38. In Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador on February 12, 1947, Carl Stewart caught a 221 lb. Pacific Sailfish.
39. Weighing in at 53 lb. 6 oz., the yellow tuna caught by Mark Sosin took 40 minutes to reel in.
40. After only a 16-minute fight, George Hogan, Jr. reeled in a 41 lb. 8 oz. Atlantic snook in Jupiter, Florida.
41. On May 6, 2012, Frank Sholtz caught a 235 lb. 5 oz. yellowfin tuna in Cape Point, South Africa. The fight lasted 6 hours.
42. Using a handmade fly, and fighting only a 25-minute battle, Fouad Sahiaoui caught an 89 lb. 15oz. swordfish in Watamu, Kenya.
43. In Bimini, Bahamas on November 12, 1989, James Orthwein caught a 12 lb. bonefish.
44. Fouad Sahiaoui also caught a 83 lb. 12 oz. a white marlin in Mohammedia, Morocco. The battle lasted 2 hours and 55 minutes on October 25, 1997.
45. On August 4, 2011, Gregory Myerson caught an 81lb. 14oz. striped bass in Westbrook, Connecticut. 
46. In Pinas Bay, Panama on January 18, 1962, Dr. Webster Robinson caught a 74 lb. 8 oz. Pacific sailfish.
47. A dogtooth tuna weighing 147 lb. 14oz. was caught by H.T. Chittum III on October 18, 2005.
48. On August 18, 1988, after a 65-minute battle Genes Grimes reeled in a 244 lb. Pacific Halibut.
49. On February 17, 2012, Nathan Adams reeled in a 739 lb. 6 oz. Pacific Bluefin tuna in New Zealand.
50. After a 7-hour battle, Stewart Campbell reeled in a 329 lb. Atlantic bigeye tuna on May 5, 1986, in the waters of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Africa.
51. Sophi Grover caught a 194-pound striped marlin in Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia on January 10, 2010.
52. A 208-pound Atlantic blue marlin was caught on May 20, 1994 in La Guaira Bank, Venezuela by Charlie Tombras.
53. Weighing in at 296 pounds and 14 ounces, the Pacific blue marlin caught in Bateman’s Bay, Australia, took angle Melanie Kisbee just 90 minutes to reel in!
54. Sara Hayward, age 15, caught a 184-pound cobia in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in July 29, 2005.
55. On September 7, 1974 in Salinas, Ecuador Santiago Maspons caught a 168-pound pacific sailfish.
56. A 102-pound Pacific sailfish was caught by Deborah Dunaway in Flamingo Bay, Costa Rica on July 9th, 1992. Interesting side note, at one time Ms. Dunaway held records for all nine billfish species simultaneously, a record that will never be duplicated. Those fish were Atlantic and Pacific blue marlin, Atlantic and Pacific sailfish, swordfish, black marlin, white marlin, striped marlin and shortbilled spearfish. The abbreviated fight time indicates that adroit boat handling played a big role in this and other ultra-light-tackle records.
57. On July 5, 1993, after just a 6 minute fight, Jerry Dunaway caught a 111 pound Pacific sailfish in Flamingo Bay, Costa Rica.
58. Weighing in at 181 pounds and 4 ounces, a white marlin was caught in Vitoria, Brazil on December 8, 1979 by Evandro Coserin.
59. On February 22, 2010 David Kahlenberg caught a 150 pound, 5 ounce mako shark in North Wale Island, New Zealand.
60. January 4, 2007 – Gary Carter caught a 58 pound, 30unce dolphin in Panama.
61. George Hogan caught a 106-pound tarpon in Marathon, Florida on June 10, 1992.
62. On May 16, 2006 Martin Arostegui caught a 385 pound lemon shark in Key West, Florida.
63. Enrico Capozzi caught a 161 pound, 7 ounce Pacific blue marlin in Playa Carillo, Costa Rica on December 15, 2007.
64. On December 18, 2007, Stacey G. Parkerson caught a 187 pound, 4 ounce Pacific blue marlin in Playa Carillo, Costa Rica.
65. On August 23, 2008, after just a 2-minute battle, Gary Carter caught a 252 pound, 9 ounce Pacific blue marlin in Pinas Bay, Panama.
66. A 41.5 pound permit was caught by Del Brown in Key West, Florida on March 13,1986 after a 1 hour fight.
67. Stacey G. Parkerson caught a 56 pound, 15 ounce Pacific sailfish in Playa Carillo, Costa Rica on January 30, 2008.
68. Fouad Sahiaoui caught a 269 Atlantic blue marlin in Mindelo, Cape Verde on May 5, 2012.
69. On December 3, 2001, Mike Levitt was fishing in Cairns, Australia and caught a 631-pound black marlin. It took 1 hour and 45 minutes to reel the marlin in.
70. Eryn Jacobsen reeled in a 400 pound, 12 ounce Pacific blue marlin on February 20, 2011 in North Cape, New Zealand.
71. On February 25, 2002, Thomas M. Evans, Jr. caught a 230-pound striped marlin in New South Wales, Australia.
72. James Holland caught a 202.5-pound tarpon in Chassahowitz, Florida on May 11, 2001.
73. On July 6, 1982, Annette Lopez caught a 1,073-pound Atlantic blue marlin in St. Thomas, USVI.
74. Marking the first official sport-caught blue marlin, a 1,003-pound Pacific blue marlin was caught by George Parker in Kona, Hawaii on November 13, 1954.
75. Billy Pate caught a 188-pound tarpon in Homasassa, Florida in 1982.
76. On November 22, 1982 after a nearly 4-hour fight, Eugene Nazarek reeled in a 768 pound, 10 ounce Pacific blue marlin in Buena Vista, Mexico.
77. Raleigh Wertking caught a 141.5-pound Pacific sailfish in Pinas Bay, Panama on December 27, 19892, after an 8-minute fight.
78. On September 18, 2012, Guy Yocum caught a 427-pound yellowfin tuna in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
79. In Grand Bereb, Ivory, Stewart Campbell caught a 714.5-pound Atlantic blue marlin after a 2.5-hour fight.
80. After just a 1-hour fight, Bill Boniface caught a 494 striped marlin in Tutukaka, New Zealand on January, 16, 1986.
81. In 1926, Captain Laurie Mitchell caught a 976-pound black marlin in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
82. On June 11, 1949, Louis Schmidt caught a 1,006-pound black marlin in Perlas Islands, Panama.
83. September 28, 2011 – Eryn Jacobsen caught a 911-pound Bluefin tuna in Cape George, Nova Scotia, Canada.
84. On January 12, 2001 in Morehead City, North Carolina, Bradly Kistler caught a 196 pound, 9 ounce Bluefin tuna.
85. Thomas M. Evans, Jr. caught a 288 pound, 12-ounce pacific blue marlin in port Stephens, Australia on March 2, 2002.
86. On June 4, 2002, Stewart Campbell caught a 562-pound Atlantic blue marlin in La Gomera, Spain.
87. Mario Salazar caught a 283-pound tarpon on March 19, 1956 in Venezuela.
88. Glen Kirkwood caught a 1,364 pound, 10 ounce tiger shark in Swansea, New South Wales, Australia on September 20, 1990.
89. On November 16, 1981, Mike Levitt caught a 737 pound, 7 ounce black marlin in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
90. On May 10, 2010, Thomas M. Evans, Jr. caught a 194.5-pound tarpon in Pine Island, Florida.
91. On June 26, 1974, Jack Herrington caught a 1,142-pound Atlantic blue marlin in Oregon Inlet, North Carolina.
92. Alfred Dean caught a 2,334-pound white shark in Streaky Bay, Australia on November 6, 1960. There was only a 45-minute fight!
93. On April 9, 1992, Stewart Campbell caught an 820 pound Atlantic blue Marlin in Grand Bereby, Ivory Coast, Africa.
94. With just a 5-minute fight, Guy Jacobsen caught a 385 pound, 5 ounce striped marlin in Poor Knights Island, New Zealand.
95. For more than 3 decades, Jay de Beaubien has held the record for catching a 1,376 Pacific blue marlin in Kona, Hawaii on May 31, 1982.
96. On June 25, 1987, Kelly Everete caught a 1,103.5-pound Pacific blue marlin in Kona, Hawaii.
97. On October 7, 1976, Peter Mahood caught a 1,051-pound black marlin in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
98. On March 8, 2009, Guy Jacobsen caught a 231 pound, 7 ounce striped marlin in Middlesex Bank, New Zealand.
99. After just an 18 minutes battle, Leo Cloostermans caught a 573 pound Atlantic blue marlin in Azores, Portugal.
100. Eric Capozzi caught a 735 pound, 3 ounce black marlin on February 7, 2000 in Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.
101. On June 14, 1964, Walter Maxwell caught a 1,780 tiger shark in Cherry Grove, South Carolina.

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