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 My brother and misses have just watched this big girl get dragged in by the guys at peak sports fishing at tantas

 Thats a tri axle trailer by the way

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 thats one nice marlin. i

Mon, 2018-01-01 19:41

 thats one nice marlin. i gather after the fight it couldnt be revived. would have been a nice fight

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 The guy on the tail pu5s

Mon, 2018-01-01 19:42

 The guy on the tail pu5s into perspective awesome catch guys .

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 think its heading to the

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:14

 think its heading to the weigh station, word on the street is they are eying of a record

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 some sneaky reports saying

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:23

 some sneaky reports saying its around 1086lbs on 130lb

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 if so not a bad effort at

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:26

 if so not a bad effort at all

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494.3kg

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:29

1089lbs!  First grander blue in Australia and new all tackle record. 

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 about 3 and half hour fight 

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:30

 about 3 and half hour fight 

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Epic

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:33

 Most excellent indeed

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 correction its gone 1089 on

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:34

 correction its gone 1089 on 130lb gear

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 Epic

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:48

 Epic

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Great for Exy and WA

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:50

Congrats to those involved.

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 its all over facebook if

Mon, 2018-01-01 20:51

 its all over facebook now if anyones interested in having a look, bluewater have a live video

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 just a question about this

Mon, 2018-01-01 21:37

 just a question about this marlin. just done a quick google about them from my understanding grander means a marlin exceeding 1000lb 

is this correct or am i reading it wrong

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 yup thats correct, this one

Mon, 2018-01-01 21:41

 yup thats correct, this one went 1089lb 

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 cool. 1 hellova fish tho.

Mon, 2018-01-01 21:45

 cool. 

1 hellova fish tho. bet there will be some partying going on up there atm and plenty of marlin steaks to go around

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Massive

Tue, 2018-01-02 01:35

 Fantastic fish. Just watched the weigh in video. Big crowd watching. Congratulations  can't wait for the go-pro footage. 

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Looks like there’s going to be a new outline on the floor @ EGFC

Tue, 2018-01-02 07:27

 Hooter of a fish 

  It’s almost as big as Eddy’s Contender

  Nice work all round 

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 What happens to the fish

Tue, 2018-01-02 08:17

 What happens to the fish afetr the weigh in?

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 Frozen and sent for a full

Tue, 2018-01-02 09:17

 Frozen and sent for a full cast. 

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 Not to sure but i bet there

Tue, 2018-01-02 09:11

 Not to sure but i bet there would be some keen marine scientists wanting a look

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Amazing fish

Tue, 2018-01-02 15:09

Amazing fish there 

 

good work  

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If Exmouth wasn't on the game fishing map it is now

Tue, 2018-01-02 17:39

Congratulations to all those associated with the capture of this leviathan of the deep.

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 Awsome fish and reward for a

Tue, 2018-01-02 23:14

 Awsome fish and reward for a bloke/business who seems to be at the top of his game......

 

I wonder when the tossers will start ear bashing him for keeping it.....

 

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 Lol you haven't been on FB

Wed, 2018-01-03 07:19

 Lol you haven't been on FB then Boony. But agree fish of a lifetime.

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Belter!

Wed, 2018-01-03 12:54

an absolute true fish of a lifetime, and congrats to the team, and also egfc, that has put in tens thousands of hours to finally nail this unbelievable achievement. 

 

Also, to the hoardes of uneducated, lefty, moronic, retarded, unknowingly stupid, but specifically the people that have below zero idea of what this fish actually means to a whole community, town, and it’s economy, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! 

 

I know now it means zero to bring this up on a fishing forum, but FFS, we all need to start playing these fucktards at their own game, and start slaying them down on any social media where they raise their ugly fascist heads. 

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 thing is a fish of that size

Wed, 2018-01-03 14:33

 thing is a fish of that size you wouldnt think it had much life left in it. fast growing  and shortis livedfrom what i have heard. not too many make it to that size 

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 i dont know where to start

Wed, 2018-01-03 17:57

 i dont know where to start when you read those comments on facebook, "should still be alive"   "why kill it"   "stoking his ego"   

 all of this shit is written on fishing pages for fuck sake.

 the same fishos who kill everything they look at for a feed while eddie releases 99% of his marlin with tags for study.....

 keep one fish that is the wholly grail of fish and the know it all keyboard greenies come a running

 i kinda think this post didnt get as many comments as it should, maybe thats a sign of what people think 

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Ive been having a ball toying

Wed, 2018-01-03 18:30

Ive been having a ball toying with tree huggers last few days on fb.
Its certainly a fish that's the lifetime goal of anyone that's into bill fishing.
More sustainable than keeping a 30kg bass grouper or 10kg red that's for sure.

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Educate

Wed, 2018-01-03 19:45

I reckon it would  be better to just educate them if possible, "toying" won't get you far

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 They need to educate

Wed, 2018-01-03 19:47

 They need to educate themselves.

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Good luck mate. I reckon you

Wed, 2018-01-03 20:43

Good luck mate. I reckon you have more chance of educating the Catholic church about human evolution.

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Who teaches?

Wed, 2018-01-03 19:59

Who feeds them the info? Books and/or radical PETA videoes, I'm trying to say....Let them know what benefits this can have without being a tool and making things worse

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Denial

Wed, 2018-01-03 20:07

Those muppets have already made up their mind.

Hey dodgy, how many of them are cat owners you reckon?

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 The point is there are

Wed, 2018-01-03 20:08

 The point is there are hundreds of misguided comments, how do you propose to let them all know? So if they can't find out and properly inform themselves then they are in my book an idiot. But the media have a lot to answer for as they knowingly inflame but omitting important facts on the story. They do it all the time remember the big bass grouper story last year...same thing.

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 Or how many of them eat tuna

Wed, 2018-01-03 20:27

 Or how many of them eat tuna out of a can? Caught by the same longliners that take 15000 billfish a year.

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lolz, they think they're

Wed, 2018-01-03 21:17

lolz, they think they're saving the enviroment because it's Dolphin freindly lol. Made me laugh one guy making a negative comment on FB while holding a dead Snapper he'd obviously caught.  

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 Pretty hard task fathom most

Wed, 2018-01-03 20:12

 Pretty hard task fathom most of these numpties have already made there minds up and you won't change them . I personally aren't into catch and release , just fish for a feed but can understand what these guys r doing .Most that comment are ill informed and making an of the cuff comment and never give it another thought. But thats social media for you. 

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 Speaking of Tuna.... Where

Wed, 2018-01-03 21:22

 Speaking of Tuna....

 

Where can you buy bloody TUNA SAFE DOLPHIN!!!

 

I'll pay a premium if i know its the cute Dolphins from Shark Bay that scavenge the pinks you release!!

 

 

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"Does anyone know where the

Wed, 2018-01-03 21:34

"Does anyone know where the love of god goes, when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" typed by dodgy

You can educate "Humans"....well....some of them...^^^^not that one^^^^

 

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 One for the record books.

Thu, 2018-01-04 07:15

 One for the record books. Wouldn't hesitate to tow that big barstard in and have the mould of it hanging on my wall. Fuckin top effort champ!!!!!

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Thu, 2018-01-04 12:04

Here’s a good read

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-04/blue-marlin-exmouth-wa-game-fishing-grander-records/9303586

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I had to triple check that

Thu, 2018-01-04 12:20

I had to triple check that that was actually published on an ABC website.

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 Great read!

Sat, 2018-01-06 09:56

 Great read!

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.. a good read indeed

Thu, 2018-01-04 13:51

Finally an article written without all the emotive nonsense.  Thanks for posting the link Dale. 

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Isnt it a good read

Thu, 2018-01-04 16:10

Not very often that you get a good article like that in the press about a fish capture.

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 Top read. Cheers for that

Thu, 2018-01-04 23:36

 Top read. Cheers for that dale

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Far out

Fri, 2018-01-05 06:50

That's a huge fish .

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 Cheers dale good read. Its

Fri, 2018-01-05 09:44

 Cheers dale good read. Its such a shame that the fb warriors have to get on and drop a turd on a once in a lifetime experience that has not only helped out a business but a whole town and maybe even the state in some way, by getting word out that hey we in wa have an awsome fishery and fish like this are proof of that.  Congrats to all involved!

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 Great article and awsome

Fri, 2018-01-05 11:22

 Great article and awsome fish for peak, the angler, and Exmouth.  Don't know the guy from a bar of soap but from what I have read about Eddy and heard  it is that he is a hard worker and dedicated to his craft. He should be getting applauded. Those comments on that article scare me as a recreational fisherman.

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 You beat me to it Dale i

Sat, 2018-01-06 06:06

 You beat me to it Dale i just read that and was about to post it here....

 

I am not on Facey but those of you that are if you could perhaps post that link and hopefully a few of the dickheads out there ear bashing these fellas might start to understand the benefit of landing fish like this....

 

If nothing else it shows the tiny percentage of Marlin kept by rec fishos and explains somewhat the stupidity behind allowing stripes to be kept and blue and blacks being thrown back ( mostly cactus after being on a long line for hours )....

 

I'm not a bill fisho per se but it would fuck me off no end knowing all those potential fish are left for dead if they were my fish of choice ( i think i've made sense there ) 

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Unfortunately, you can't fix

Sat, 2018-01-06 11:28

Unfortunately, you can't fix stupid, and that is exactly what these people are. They wouldnt survive if they didn't have a supermarket down the road. Can't see past the next sob story PETA video. It's a result of no real world experience.