On day 2 of the 55th Annual Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament, Mari Arakawa of Japan’s Olympian Dream Fishing Club brought a 622.6-pound Pacific blue marlin to the scales. The fish put the Japanese team atop the leader board and put Arakawa in the record books. Arakawa’s marlin is the largest fish ever taken at the HIBT tournament on 50-pound test by a woman angler.

Arakawa hooked up just after 10:00 am and fought the fish for four hours, but she said that the time seemed to go by quickly.

This was not Arakawa’s first big fight in this tournament. In 2001 she fought a 600-pound pacific blue marlin for three and a half hours, but lost the fish at the leader.

Here’s a HIBT video from Day 2:

FISH ON!

 

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By Sid

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