The ultimate catch for a big game angler is a fish weighing more than 1,000lb, a feat first achieved off Tahiti 82 years ago. Since 1939 the International Game Fish Association (IGFA) has been the official keeper of world records and lists four 1,000lb plus 'granders’ from Chile, Peru, Nova Scotia and the Great Australian Bight that have resisted challenge.
FISH: BLACK MARLIN - 1,006LB WHERE: PANAMA WHEN: 1949
This grander was caught by Louis Schmidt who had only one arm and one leg, making the catch all the more extraordinary. For a reason unstated his claim for the record was denied. A picture of the captor with the fish can be seen in Mike Rifkin’s book History of the IGFA published in 2005.
FISH: BLUE MARLIN - 1,040LB WHERE: TAHITI WHEN: 1938
In 1938 big game fishing devotee Zane Grey, who became a very wealthy man by writing a great number of best-selling Western novels, was on his third summer cruise aboard his beautiful schooner,
