An hour later, it re-emerged and Parker told the Herald there was a mad scramble to get in the water.<\/p>\n
The fish came within 4 metres of Parker before he fired his shot.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hit it really good and hit it in the spine with my big spear, so it didn\u2019t take off anywhere near as fast as what a marlin should take off,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing around 62kg, it dragged me through the water pretty good. At stages it was powering up and getting faster and so I gave it more line on the bungee and let it wear it down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a lot of big celebrations going on in the water. It was cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
What made the occasion more special was that it was an impromptu trip out on the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve spent the last 25 years, since we were kids, dreaming about catching a marlin,\u201d Carbery said. \u201cI\u2019d never even seen one in real life until that day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw this huge electric blue and purple shape launch out of the water like a rocket. It was zig-zagging like an F1 car.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo do it with your best mates, on a glassy blue day like that – it was absolutely once in a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n
Within two hours of capturing the marlin, it was taken to the local butcher, where it is being cut down for some raw and smoked fish.<\/p>\n
Parker said there were a few beers to celebrate the haul which he described as a \u201cdream come true\u201d. While he isn\u2019t sure if he will shoot another marlin, he has his eyes on another prized fish.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a pretty cool experience just being in the water with it, but my main target this year was a yellowfin tuna,\u201d Parker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t actually had that opportunity yet so we\u2019ll be still hunting them down for the next few months until they bugger off but that\u2019s definitely next on the list.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An hour later, it re-emerged and Parker told the Herald there was a mad scramble to get in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[150792,150791,21693,2372,41220,13633,11586,22506,299,1888,8321,38550,1445,209,305,5840,6453,123614,13631,111,43,139,69,6662,8601,7812,2044,99704,1299],"class_list":["post-263495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-967kg","tag-96kg","tag-achieved","tag-board","tag-capture","tag-catching","tag-coast","tag-coromandel","tag-dream","tag-first","tag-fish","tag-flesh","tag-friends","tag-group","tag-have","tag-least","tag-lifetime","tag-marlin","tag-never","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-seeing","tag-seen","tag-time","tag-whangamat","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263495","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=263495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}