While there have been bigger marlin landed commercially and by recreational anglers not in accordance with IGFA rules, pictured below are the leading big fish, officially speaking.
Special thanks to the IGFA @ (www.igfa.org) and Marlin Magazine @ (www.marlinmag.com).
Atlantic Blue Marlin
Weight: 1,402 pounds, 2 ounces ( 636 Kg )
Angler: Paulo Amorim
Location: Vitoria, Brazil
Date: Feb. 29, 1992
Notes: 162-inch (4,11mt) fish ate a pink-and-white Mold Craft Super Chugger and is the most recent record-breaker on IGFA list. (Big photo is a replica mount)
Black Marlin
Weight: 1,560 pounds ( 707,6 Kg )
Angler: Alfred Glassell Jr.
Location: Cabo Blanco, Peru
Date: Aug. 4, 1953
Notes: 1 hour and 45 minute fight. The 174-inch (4,42mt) fish fell for a mackerel trolled in the once-legendary Black Marlin Boulevard off Cabo Blanco.
Pacific Blue Marlin
Weight: 1,376 pounds ( 624,14 Kg )
Angler: Jay de Beaubien
Location: Kaaiwai Point, Kona, Hawai
Date: May 31, 1982
Notes: This blue Marlin took a Kita lure and succumbed in less than one hour. Jay de Beaubien caught this 193-inch (4,90mt.) fish using a Fin-Nor 12/0.
Striped Marlin
Weight: 494 pounds ( 224,07 Kg )
Angler: Bill Boniface
Location: Tutukaka, New Zealand
Date: January 16, 1986
Notes: Boniface, a New Zealand native, fed this once-in-a-lifetime fish a kahawai.
White Marlin
Weight: 181 pounds, 14 ounces ( 82,5 Kg )Angler: Evandro Coser
Location: Vitoria, Brazil
Date: Dec. 8, 1979
Notes: Coser (of Brazil) trolled dead bait to land this 107.5-inch (2,73mt.) fish.
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