MARLINS OF THE WORLD
Out of all the gamefish species in the world the mighty marlin is without a doubt highly sought after by many light and heavy tackle anglers. The main reason for this is not just for the marlin’s fighting ability, but for their spectacular aerial displays that gets everyone onboard the boat so wound up and excited.
These visual, airborne exhibitions not only send the captain, crew and anglers into raptures, but photographers like me can’t get enough of this kind of action. I often get what they call “buck fever” shooting a marlin in full flight and the bigger the marlin, the bigger the adrenalin rush!
We have four species of marlin in our oceans and they are all totally different in many ways. The two that grow the largest are the blue and the black, reaching weights in excess of 800kilos (1,700lbs). The two smaller species are the striped and the white and the stripey reaches a maximum weight of around the 240kgs (500lbs) where as the whitey only reaches around 85kgs (180lbs).
WHITE MARLIN
The whitey is only found in the Atlantic Ocean between the latitudes of 35degrees south and
