225 pounds of blue marlin, unassisted! |
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 08:01 |
225 pounds of blue marlin, unassisted! That's the early word coming out of Hawaii's Aquahunters forum, where two-time Makahiki tournament champ Andy "FBI" Cho of Kona tangled with kayak fishing history.
In an account posted on AquaHunters, Cho related the details of this amazing kayak catch. It's repeated here verbatim, in full Hawiian flavor:"thanks guys for all the support here is a quik run down of how things went down. i was out on a solo mission and had already caught a couple of live opes so i was trying to head out to the depths. i saw couple of of huge swirls so i thought maybe big ahis. then the reel went off and the marlin was tailwalking straight for me, i had drop the pole and start paddling i seen it pass in front of the yak by 5 feet just under the surface.Cho's is the largest documented unassisted kayak catch recorded, surpassing Howard McKim's 182-pound Alaska halibut and Dave Lamoureux's 156-pound Cape Cod bluefin. All kayak records are unofficial; the IGFA, the world's foremost fishing record keeper, only concerns itself with line class regardless the platform. Photo courtesy Ho'ala Greevy |
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