Three mates have come close to breaking the world spearfishing record for the biggest marlin off the coast at Eden – an achievement that one of them already holds.
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Timmy Knight, of Canberra, was fishing on the shelf about an hour out from Eden on Sunday with Kyran ‘The Bollard’ Crane of Eden and Luke ‘The Deckhand’ Pattrick, also from Canberra, when he speared a 138.5 kilo South Coast striped marlin.
It was only 900 grams short of the world record claimed by Luke last year.
“I don’t mind coming second to my best mate,” Timmy, aka ‘Big Hitter’, said.
The trio came across the marlin after spotting a seal feeding on a school of mackerel, he said. “We dropped in on the bait ball [small fish swarming in a tight formation when threatened by a predator] and came across four marlin.”
And, as is the case with every good fishing story, there’s always the one that got away – one of the marlin was bigger than the one Luke speared to set the world record.
The marlin was filleted and given away to onlookers at Quarantine Bay.
