I like fishing.  Have you ever been fishing? 
Yes indeed, I've just been marlin fishing in my last vacation in the Florida Keys
What type of fish are marlin?
wrote extensively about their pursuit and enthused about the sporting qualities of their quarry.
These days a lot of resources are committed to the construction of private and charter billfishing boats to participate in the billfishing tournament circuit. These are expensive purpose-built offshore vessels with powerfully driven deep sea hulls. They are often built to luxury standards and equipped with many technologies to ease the life of the deep sea recreational fisherman, including outriggers, flying bridges and fighting chairs, and state of the art fishfinders and navigation electronics.
Marlin
, and Bermagui. However, the best scores in terms of numbers of fish have come from boats fishing the Gold Coast.
A blue marlin over has been officially recorded in Australian waters, several blue marlin over have been boated or released by Australian anglers; fish larger than a thousand pounds have been hooked, but none so far landed. The Australian record capture (which is also the ladies' all-tackle world record) weighed just under . Its weight, , was caught on tackle whilst fishing from Batemans Bay