In the first place, black marlin is a magnificent fish. They are huge and strong and beautiful. Black marlin fishing could very well be the ultimate experience in sport fishing. Their dorsal side, also known as the top, is dark blue in color yet the dorsal fin is actually black. The underside is silvery white.
Fast Fish
Blacks are very fast. They have been clocked at over eighty miles an hour. That's how fast they can unwind your line off your reel once you have hooked one. This fish has a streamlined design. The upper jaw tapers out into a long sharp point like the nose cone of a rocket. They are powered by an incredibly strong crescent-shaped tail.
Body Build
The body isn't round or barrel shaped but long and laterally compressed. It almost resembles the shape of a Russian Wolfhound. It's the ideal design for slicing through water at high speeds. These fish are not easy to hook. They aren't stupid or gullible. Sometimes fishermen wait for hours and hours before they get a bite. Patience may not pay but impatience definitely won't.
Catching Black Marlin
One reason black marlin fishing is popular is because once they are hooked, they are difficult to catch. Even though they don't usually dive deep, they fight. They can swim a long way in a short time and break a line that isn't expertly managed in the process. One of the most effective ways to attract a black marlin is with live bait. Unfortunately that is also a good way to attract sharks. More than one unfortunate sport fisher has seen his catch torn to pieces by sharks before he could get it into the boat.
Male Marlins
Even without competition from sharks, it isn't easy to haul one of these magnificent creatures into a boat. Even a good sized male can weigh three hundred pounds. But that's nothing compared to his sisters.
Female Marlins
Female black marlin are much larger than the males. They can weigh over a thousand pounds. The world record holder was over fifteen hundred pounds.
Elusive
If you don't think these fish are tough, use some imagination. Imagine a thousand pound female coming at you at 80 miles an hour with PMS and a bayonet. Lucky for you, they are more inclined to play hard-to-get.
Location
Fishing for these magnificent sea creatures can be an expensive hobby unless you happen to live in one of the locations where they abound. They make their habitat in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. A trip to Africa, South America, Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia or New Zealand will provide a unique opportunity to catch one of these monster fish.
Angling
Unlike other members of the marlin family, the blacks are not primarily deep sea dwellers. Their natural habitat is on the continental shelves or in the relatively shallow waters of warm-water archipelagos. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the most desirable angling destinations.
The record for the largest black marlin fishing catch with a rod and reel was set in 1953 off the coast of Peru. It weighed 1560 pounds. The captor donated it to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
The record for the largest black marlin fishing catch with a rod and reel was set in 1953 off the coast of Peru. It weighed 1560 pounds. The captor donated it to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
≈~≈The Daily Catch Team≈~≈
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