The hardest way to catch a marlin.

[Roddy Hays]

No helicopter, jet-ski or surfboard for this guy. Ascension Island and a blue marlin make the news again - though for a different reason this time.

Read about it here.

Probably bigger cojones than that crazy Kiwi, Matt Watson

[OffTheHookB&T]

GREAT there goes the business
No need for rods, reels, lures, etc!

Thanksfor sharing Roddy!

[frankypettolina]

Pretty neat!!


I like the comments underneath the story... "since they mate for life"

monogamous fish- thats a good one.

[trex]

Hmmmm....pretty strong gent to be able to hold a 300#er up like that w/ one hand

[tunatamer4]

Hmmmm....pretty strong gent to be able to hold a 300#er up like that w/ one hand

LOL! He's using two hands.

[trex]

LOL! He's using two hands.

Actually the fish is resting in his lap. Most of the weight is on his lap and right arm. The left arm seems to be keeping the thing from rolling on him. So yeah, I'd say he's holding it up with his lap and right arm. 300# of dead weight is alot of weight to hold up. That was my point

[milchner]

Probably bigger cojones than that crazy Kiwi, Matt Watson

Well, I can´t say something about the cojones-size, but he has definitely a lot of courage.
Many thanks for sharing with us.

[JFT]

For my money, killing a blue marlin with that spear gun equals ASSHOLE. I'd like to see him in the water on the North Drop, St. Thomas where the tigers and bull sharks roam.

[Roddy Hays]

For the money, JFT, he'd probably say using a $1 million boat, 2 x 1200hp engines, 400 gallons of fuel a day, $12,000 of rod and reel, upwards of $5000 worth of lures and hooks, a wireman and someone to turn the chair while you just wind - also equates to something similiar. The big-game equivalent of what he did would be for you to be towed out to the Drop in a small rowing boat and then be cast off to do all the rest on your own. The boat would have to have almost zero free-board for the situation to be a serious equal contender, of course.....

For what it's worth, I have no beef with what he's done - and what he most probably won't bother doing again. He set himself a target, achieved it, and did so face to face in the quarry's realm, under his own propulsion, in a situation where he could easily have been seriously injured or killed. Nothing was wasted, and he had as much right to kill a fish as you might do releasing one off the Drop straight back into a tiger's jaws. In its basest terms, you couldn't hunt a large fish under fairer terms. I personally think a spearfisherman with the right ethics and morals does less damage to the environment than any fisherman. All the spearos I have met and fished with always seemed to have far more appreciation of the quarry and its environment than the average big-game jockey, that's for sure.

That's my opinion, anyway, and I'm ready to be proved wrong, as always.

[Anders]

For the money, JFT, he'd probably say using a $1 million boat, 2 x 1200hp engines, 400 gallons of fuel a day, $12,000 of rod and reel, upwards of $5000 worth of lures and hooks, a wireman and someone to turn the chair while you just wind - also equates to something similiar. The big-game equivalent of what he did would be for you to be towed out to the Drop in a small rowing boat and then be cast off to do all the rest on your own. The boat would have to have almost zero free-board for the situation to be a serious equal contender, of course.....

For what it's worth, I have no beef with what he's done - and what he most probably won't bother doing again. He set himself a target, achieved it, and did so face to face in the quarry's realm, under his own propulsion, in a situation where he could easily have been seriously injured or killed. Nothing was wasted, and he had as much right to kill a fish as you might do releasing one off the Drop straight back into a tiger's jaws. In its basest terms, you couldn't hunt a large fish under fairer terms. I personally think a spearfisherman with the right ethics and morals does less damage to the environment than any fisherman. All the spearos I have met and fished with always seemed to have far more appreciation of the quarry and its environment than the average big-game jockey, that's for sure.

That's my opinion, anyway, and I'm ready to be proved wrong, as always.

I'm with you

and, the amount of bill fish killed because of rod and reel, even people who release fish, is probably more than what him and his friends do. Catch and release is the way to go to bring these guys back and still fish for them, but things happen and fish die doing that too.

If he shot one a day, JFT, then you would have something to complain about