It was only last week that he and his clients hooked but lost a black marlin off Potato Point while fishing for snapper. Nick reckons the marlin probably took a slimy mackerel or some other small fish that took the bait on the paternoster rig, before becoming hooked itself.

There have been incidents of black marlin taking hooked kingfish on the way up at Montague Island, as recently as a few weeks ago.

They had that marlin in sight a couple of times before it took off taking them out around four miles to the east but even then they could not stop it.

So he went back to the same spot a few days later with a live marlin bait on a game rod but could only manage a mako shark as a consolation prize, as well as some great snapper.

Then on Monday, after managing a few good kingfish at Montague Island, the Playstation spent the arvo at Potato Point and put a marlin bait out again on a game rod.

This time they managed a nice 80kg black marlin while snapper fishing, which was released after the battle. “Exceptional day!” Nick said.

He was fishing with family relations making the day all the more special. The angler credited with the marlin was his relation Ross Pogue from Shepparton, Victoria, where Nick used to live.