{"id":243270,"date":"2026-01-20T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243270\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T22:34:09","slug":"fishing-9-year-old-waikato-angler-lands-impressive-striped-marlin-at-raglan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243270\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing: 9-year-old Waikato angler lands impressive striped marlin at Raglan"},"content":{"rendered":"
Each time the fish came out of the water, Hadley had to adjust her stance and keep the line tight, Brad said.<\/p>\n
Hadley said her arms and legs were so sore, and she got really tired.<\/p>\n
The fight stretched to around an hour before the marlin finally tired enough to be brought aboard.<\/p>\n
This meant Hadley officially joined the family club, matching the achievements of her older brothers Kody and Dexter, who both previously caught a striped marlin.<\/p>\n
When the family is out fishing, they usually tag and release their marlin, Brad said, but they keep the first one each child catches.<\/p>\n
With this being Hadley\u2019s first, the fish was brought home and later smoked.<\/p>\n
Fishing is only one part of Hadley Curtin\u2019s busy life. She also does tap dancing and lyrical dancing.<\/p>\n
Brad, who once chased marlin himself, now seems to have become the designated driver of the family boat as his children take over the rods.<\/p>\n
With Hadley matching her brothers\u2019 achievements, he may be spending even more time at the helm in the years ahead.<\/p>\n
But fishing is only one part of Hadley\u2019s busy life: she also does tap dancing and lyrical dancing, helps Brad in his workshop, and is counting down the time until she\u2019s old enough to race speedway ministocks at Waharoa.<\/p>\n
With school starting again soon and rough weather forecast, she knows her fishing window is closing, though she joked that a \u201csick day\u201d might help her squeeze in one more trip.<\/p>\n
Graeme \u201cMintie\u201d Mead is a sports commentator, the host of the radio show Waikato All Sports Breakfast and a Newstalk ZB overnight host. He is also a Hamilton City Councillor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each time the fish came out of the water, Hadley had to adjust her stance and keep the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[142693,123311,42780,1975,11783,9525,11586,3087,71,29955,1345,10749,38692,123614,111,43,139,69,8693,142692,1524,1316],"class_list":["post-243270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-63kg","tag-9yearold","tag-angler","tag-at","tag-brought","tag-caught","tag-coast","tag-fishing","tag-from","tag-haul","tag-home","tag-impressive","tag-lands","tag-marlin","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-raglan","tag-striped","tag-waikato","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}