Tagged Marlin- Ever Caught one?

[Lovey80]

As the tittle says...Have you ever caught a Marlin of any species that has previously been tagged by another angler???

[Lovey80]

Come on guys I'll settle for some one that has heard of a tagged Marlin capture?????

[jeffo]

The summer just gone was a great one for re captures on the sunshine coast.

We got 4 re captures and pulled the hooks on another 4 before we could retrieve the old tag.

I also had a sailfish I tagged last sept, recaught in March by a bloke who lives just up the road.

I think the Sunshine Coast GFC ended up with about 12 or 13 repatures for the season.

3 years ago I tagged a black marlin on the mooloolaba 18 mile and I re caught the same fish 2 months later on the mooloolaba 10 mile.

[Noelm]

yep, got a couple over the years, and Tuna as well, one was somewhat a funny one, a guy had tagged it and guessed the weight to be (can't really remember) but but lets say 15KG, when we got it sometime later we guessed it to be about 10KG at BEST and that was pushing it, so I guess sometimes in all the excitement people see fish as somewhat bigger than they actually are! especially if they get away, those fish are HUGE!

[Smithy]

I had 4 racaptures on my boat out of 52 caught for the season. One was a sailfish out since 2006.

[The Mouse]

We've had a few quiet a few of ours been re-captured and caught a few plus alot of sharks but the most interesting one was a Kingfish i tagged while out shark fishing on the shelf off sydney and was re-captured in sydney harbour by my dad of all people fishing off the back off the boat at the marina 100 days later the skin had grown over the tag and he only found it when filleting it. I think it was about 30cm when i tagged it and 70cm when re-captured.

Cheers
Rob

[Lovey80]

The reason I asked the question was last Friday I managed to jag a last minute spot on a charter boat out of Mooloolaba as I dropped my father off. One guy didn't show so I took the last spot.

Anyhoo during the day one of the Deckies claimed that he had spent years fishing Pro and Charter boats and had caught "Over a Thousand" marlin in his time and had never seen a tag in ANY of them. Had seen in Tuna plenty but not Marlin. He claimed that there is no way a fish that you have taken 2-3 hours to fight to the boat is going to survive. Once you release it, a short time later it sinks to the bottom dead.

I just wanted to put that to death. If I ever see him again I can tell him how full of sh!te he is. Was a decent deckie though and kept the crew entertained as we caught bugger all fish. Skipper never stopped trying though and the sounder was looking the goods but the fish just didnt want to play.

That puts that to bed.

Thanks for the input guys.

Cheers

Chris

[finding_time]

1000 mmarlin hey?? What 50 per year for 20 years? or 25 a year over 40 years ?? How old was this guy? And What boat BTW!

[Lovey80]

Finding Time, Yeh mate I had a laugh at that too but I think he was just exaggerating to make his point and not meant us to believe he had caught that many.... I'll leave the boat name out of it so as to not tarnish there name because of a few silly words from a ring in deckie.

[cuzzamundi]

I'm very tired of that argument. Have had the same problem with scientists who have criticised my shark tagging methods over the years. Landbased, have tagged some big girls, some over 500kg, and a few of these scientists would claim they'd be dead within hours of being released. They claimed it was due to lactic acid build up, kinda like carwin in his last fight with lesnar, that they'd blow their wad on the hour plus long fight, and then die upon being returned to the water. This lasted until, one by one, my large tagged sharks started rocking up dead in the shark nets or drum lines, months or years after being released! After about the fifth tiger and countless whalers, they finally admitted they may have 'read' things wrongly. Can't argue with them facts, and although it kills me evertime i get a notification telling me another of my sharks are dead, at least I know it's doing more to cement the fact that big game fish, if handled correctly, DO survive a long struggle via a rod!

Cuzza

[Lovey80]

Thanks for the replies fellas. The reason it sparked my interest is although I found it highly unlikely that it was true, I am saving up for a bigger boat that is capable of game fishing and didn't want to spend all those dollars kitting it out for game fishing if there really was any water behind the story.

[sleepygreg]

Chris, the gamefish tagging programme has been running for the 34 years I have been involved in Sport and Game Fishing, and im sure it was going before i was involved in it. If ALL the fish tagged did not survive, the programme would have been scrapped many years ago. By all means get your boat and get involved in the programme, and provide valuable data for the 'real' scientists to monitor the growth rates and other data that is needed to provide FACTS, not speculation. (and i want a ride in the new rig :))

Cheers
Greg

[Smithy]

Just a look at my records. I have been involved with 8 that had tags in them allready long term, one on the same day from someone else that needed resucitation and I have had two recaptured from boats I have fished on. That is from 280 I have been involved with that have been tagged and released or delibrately released.

[Lovey80]

Chris, the gamefish tagging programme has been running for the 34 years I have been involved in Sport and Game Fishing, and im sure it was going before i was involved in it. If ALL the fish tagged did not survive, the programme would have been scrapped many years ago. By all means get your boat and get involved in the programme, and provide valuable data for the 'real' scientists to monitor the growth rates and other data that is needed to provide FACTS, not speculation. (and i want a ride in the new rig :))

Cheers
Greg

This was my immediate thought also. I had to resist every bone in my body to not call him out in front of the other punters but being that I have never caught one wasn't speaking from a position of experience so I let it go.

Greg you will get a trip for sure, actually when it the times comes I think lads like Noelm, Finding Time and Deano etc will to if they want........... All you blokes will need to teach me the finer arts of rigging etc for game fishing AND how to get the best out of a larger trailer cat as my little tin cat is pretty much point and shoot and not much to learn driving wise.

Cheers

Chris

[four_button_arnie]

Does catching a Tagged Barra, or yellow belly count?? Combined they are nearly a marlin.....

Might be an idea to start a thread and whenever some one catches a tagged fish take a photo and whack him up for all to see

Josh
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[The Mouse]

We had a marlin re-captured at port stephens one year a week after we had tagged it and it was the first of a double hook up came in tail wrapped and didnt get swum cause the other guy was walking back down from the front already it obviously fed fine staright away.

[Noelm]

I guess what it all comes down to when it is all said and done, any fish released in any condition, has a chance of survival, if it is in the boat/esky/gantry it has zero chance of survival, how many live is anyones guess, but SOME must, just as surely as some must just sink to the bottom to be waste or food for scavengers.

[Midnight]

You beat me too it Noelm.

I was going to say that the number of fish that survive after being tagged is significantly higher than the ones that survive being hit with a flying gaff and weighed at the GFC:P

Cheers,
Myles

[business class]

I tagged 2 billfish Early this Janruary Off the pin in the Light Tackle Tourny one after another, only to have them both recaptured 26 and 34 days later back up at Mooloolaba. One was re captured bye Smithy:o who was 3kg Above the weight i picked it for ;) And the other one :-X. Lets just say he musta got hungry on the trip back up ;D .

Cheers
Matty