The FIRST angler 'GRANDER SLAM'?

Over the years several skippers have taken ‘Grander Slams’ - 1000lb plus Atlantic and Pacific Blues plus Black Marlin - in their angling careers. But I’m unaware of any anglers who have achieved that feat; that is until now.

Stephan Kreupl, one of our Club’s German members, has literally just released an estimated 1100lb Black Marlin fishing aboard Capt. Tim Richardson’s Tradition on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. (There’s a brief report here - http://www.blackmarlinblog.com .)

Previously Stephan had caught an 1238lb Pacific Blue Marlin from Rodrigues Island - near Mauritius in the Indian Ocean in January 2007. (That’s still the IGFA’s 80lb line class record, and was taken on stand-up gear.) And in May 2011 he caught an 1150lb Atlantic Blue fishing aboard Amelia, skippered by Zak Conde, in the Cape Verde Islands - the fabled NorWest Bank off Santo Antao.

(There are reports of these last two captures here - http://en.bluewaterfishing.eu/…drigues/rodrigues-2007-1/ and here - http://en.bluewaterfishing.eu/…bo-verde/cabo-verde-2011/ .)

Tremendous achievement! Well done Stephan!

Zitat von reinaard van der vossen

WOW!

Only 10 minutes to bring her in, do I understand that correctly?

I've been on a big one (900 lb plus) twice and there was no stopping them at all. It's like being hooked up with a freight train. I lost both of them obviously (hook spit)

I guess I should better eat my wheaties and try again

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Good morning Reinaard and my apologies for the delay in replying. Virtually all those BIG Blacks on the Great Barrier Reef are targeted using very large swimming or skipping dead baits and the immediate reaction of the fish when hooked, with that lodged in its throat, is to jump. They're relatively close - the drag settings are very high - and the boat powers backwards to try to ensure a short fight, with successful release. (In those tropical waters any fish acting unnaturally is fairly quickly shadowed by sharks.)

Looking at reports from that Black Marlin Blog they're obviously having a very successful season.