Black Marlin Cairns, Australia
Weighed on Tropic Queen
Blue Marlin Maui, Hawaii
Capt. Francis Phillips of the TRES' MARIE used a homemade wooden teaser shaped and painted like a mahimahi to raise their 1039.6-lb marlin. The marlin then attacked a Marlin Mgic Ruckus Digga Jet attached to a 12/0 Penn Senator reel loaded with 130-lb test Maxima line even though it had a 30-plus-lb spearfish half-digested in its throat! The marlin put up an epic battle with numerous runs under the boat getting the line treacherously close to the props and finally diving into the depths and expiring.
Blue Marlin Cook Islands
Cameron Thorp on Tamahine weighed a Blue Marlin (1,040). This is the 1st Grander of 2019 reported to us on rod and reel
Blue Marlin Vairao, Tahiti
Do not have exact date, just year. January 1 is a placeholder.
Blue Marlin Kona, Hawaii
Mike Benham was aboard the MOANI when he brought his monster marlin back to Kona.
