Search is on for the biggest blue marlin

Search efforts are intensifying for what organizers describe as the biggest blue marlin, the quarry sought to win the Blue Marlin World Cup and its prize pool. With nearly 200 boats reportedly taking part, the competition is set to run across multiple regions, starting in the South Pacific—possibly near Guam—before moving west toward the Indian Ocean and then onward to the eastern Atlantic. The Cape Verde Islands, Madeira, and the Azores are highlighted for producing large marlin this year, while Bermuda is noted as having supplied winners nine times since the tournament began in 1985. The article also points to the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaii’s Kona coast, with Kona having produced 11 winners. It emphasizes tactics such as using side-scan sonar to locate large fish and the operational complexity of getting a marlin to bite under game-fishing rules.