World record game fish caught by Woman in the last couple years some of the biggest catches have been broken by woman anglers though not all of the catches have been official these anglers still caught the fish have a great photo along with great memories. Today we will go over the biggest Blue Marlin, Swordfish, Yellowfin Tuna, and Bluefin Tuna.
384 lb Yellowfin Tuna
in April of April 2014 Erin Kaplan caught a 384 lb Yellowfin Tuna in Puerto Vallarta Mexico this is the biggest Yellowfin Tuna ever caught by a woman angler!
906 lb Bluefin Tuna
Donna Pascoe caught a 906 lb Bluefin Tuna caught in New Zealand in 2013It could be worth up to $ 2million, make 2,875 sandwiches, and has been hailed a 'Picasso of the sea'... but Donna Pascoe wants to stuff her record-breaking tuna catch and hang it on her wall. The game fisherwoman battled for more than four hours the 411.6kg (64 stone) Pacific bluefin before finally reeling in the high-speed leviathan - thought to be the largest ever caught with a rod and line. She hooked the fish - which is twice the size of a tuna sold at a Japanese auction last year for $1.09million - using a 60lb line near the Three Kings Islands off Cape Reinga of New Zealand. The experienced angler first suspected something fishy was going on when her line began to tug. 'The line was peeling out like it was attached to a freight train,' said Donna, of Auckland, New Zealand. 'As usual, I was pretty nervous that I might get spooled. Thankfully, the fish stopped running and I was able to get a bit of line back in.' Unaware of the scale of her catch, Donna and her four-strong team battled for over four hours to drag the gargantuan 8ft 9' tuna onto her boat. 'It was a very stubborn fish, but I'm stubborn as well,' said Donna. The wind had got up to gusts of 36 knots and I was getting drenched from the waves coming over the back of the boat. 'But I was determined to win this one. I knew we had to get the tuna on board before a shark came and bit a chunk out of it. 'We were all speculating what it was. No way did I think it was a tuna.' After the 4 hour and 11 minute long battle, the fish was lifted on to the boat, with the help of the anchor winch. She said: 'Once we got it on board, everybody's mouth dropped open. It was absolutely amazing. 'I was so excited that my arms and legs could have fallen off and I wouldn't have noticed. I think adrenalin is a great thing and it certainly kept me going.' At 411.6kg, the fish weighs twice as much as a baby elephant and could fill 3162 cans of tuna. It blows the current world record for a fish caught on a rod of 335kg out of the water. Alistair Blair, chairman of The Fish Society, the largest online fish retailer in Britain, told MailOnline: 'The wholesale value of a bluefin tuna that size would be in the realm of $8,300 (£5,000) to $16,500 (£10,000) - that's about four times the value of an ordinary tuna. The retail value, of course, would be much higher - somewhere around $83,000 (£50,000) or more.' Last year, however, a 222kg bluefin tuna sold for $1.09 million at a Tokyo auction. By that standard, Donna's fish could be worth up to $2 million at auction. 'People would be willing to pay a lot for a record-breaking fish,' added Mr Blair. 'If you have got a bit of that fish to serve at your banquet then you've got something pretty boast-worthy. 'So this would appeal only to people who are billionaires. It's the fish equivalent of buying a Picasso painting.' He added that a whole bluefin tuna contains around 55 per cent of edible meat. That means it could make 1,769 tins of tuna (160g, brine drained), 2,875 tuna sandwiches or 511 dishes of tuna sashimi. Donna, however, is unable to sell it because the fish wasn't caught on a commercial vessel. Instead, she plans to have it mounted by a taxidermist at the Houhora Big Game & Sports Fishing Club in New Zealand. Donna explained: 'We were originally going to have it smoked and shared around our friends, but then we were talked out of this as it was so monumental.' Usually a fish is either stuffed with filler material like firmly packed sawdust or it is stretched over a mold and shaped into the desired pose. Donna has chosen to make a mold, but the pose, she says, is yet to be decided. The enormous catch put Donna in first place in the tuna section for the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council Nationals Competition. She is now awaiting certification from the International Game Fish Association so she can claim the world record. Bluefin are the world's largest tuna and can live for up to 40 years. Built for speed, they can dive up to 4,000 feet and have retractable fins so they can seek out schools of herring, mackerel and eels.
794 lb Swordfish
Nicky Swift caught a 794 lb Swordfish in New Zeland off the northland coast Kiwi fishing show host Nicky Sinden has hauled up a monster of the deep, a swordfish which is expected to land her a world record. The host of TV show Ados Addicted to Fishing hooked the 361kg, 4.2m-long broadbill at a secret location off northern New Zealand on Wednesday. Operating out of Whangaroa, north of the Bay of Islands, Sinden said the trip, in her new Extreme brand boat, was a "baptism of fire". "It was on the second drop, it took the bait and we knew automatically that it was a broadbill. read full article
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1305 lb Blue Marlin
An angler from Hawaii traveled halfway around the world to catch the largest blue marlin ever landed by a woman.
Jada Holt, while fishing with a Kona-based crew at Ascension Island in the equatorial South Atlantic, boated a 1,305-pound Atlantic blue marlin on Saturday after only a 15-minute fight.
Asked how it were possible to land such a gigantic billfish in so little time, Capt. Bryan Toney told GrindTV, “Because we chased it down with the boat, and she was an excellent angler.”
Toney said details of the catch will be submitted to the International Game Fish Association, and that Jada and the crew were abiding by IGFA rules.
If the catch is approved by the IGFA, it will shatter the existing women’s record for Atlantic blue marlin – a 1,073-pound fish caught in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1982.
If the catch is approved by the IGFA, it will shatter the existing women’s record for Atlantic blue marlin – a 1,073-pound fish caught in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1982.
The largest Pacific blue marlin caught by a woman is a 958-pounder caught off Kona, on the island of Hawaii, in 2013.
Toney said the only other “grander” blue marlin caught by a woman, “that I am aware of,” was a fish weighing 1,104 pounds. But that was not caught in accordance with IGFA rules.
Granders are marlin weighing 1,000 pounds or more, and catches are rare.
For the sake of comparison regarding Holt’s marlin, the IGFA lists as the all-tackle world record for Atlantic blue marlin a 1,402-pound 2-ounce fish caught off Brazil in 1992 by male angler Paulo Amorim.
Toney said his group had embarked at Ascension in search of giant billfish, and that the huge marlin struck a lure.
Holt took the rod, Olaf Grimkowski was the wireman whose job it was to secure the leader once the fish was close to the boat, and Holt’s dad, Chip Van Mols, a Kona captain, was part of the crew.
“It smoked half a spool, and we chased it down and got to it in 15 minutes,” Toney said. “Pretty epic. Largest blue ever caught by a women on the planet, and potential new Atlantic record that will beat a 30-plus-year-old record.”
Chasing hooked marlin with a boat is routine. It’d be virtually impossible to stop the larger billfish from an idling vessel.
But still, 15 minutes is a surprisingly short fight time for even a marlin half this size.
Jim Rizzuto, a longtime Kona fishing writer, explained in a column on Monday that Holt is an expert angler who logged her first world record when she was 10.
“[But] the unusual brevity of the fight may also have been aided by the placement of the hook,” Rizzuto wrote. “Anchored in the lower tip of the jaw, it provided a pulling point which helped turn the fish and lead it to the boat.”
Toney said they had intended to let the marlin go, but after using a tape-measurement formula they determined that it was a potential world record, so they hauled it through the transom door and took it to port. read more
