re: can you bring a fishing pole on a cruise ship?

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You'll need 1,000 lb test line though baw. Dem some big fishes.

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161.4-to-1 573-pound Atlantic blue marlin Line Class: 4-pound Angler: Leo Cloostermans Actual Line Strength (Wet): 3.55 pounds Fight Time: 18 minutes Location: Azores Date: Aug. 10, 1995 With a full moon still shining overhead, the 43-foot Daytona Double Header left the dock at Horta, in the Azores, just after daylight on Aug. 9, 1995. Capt. Don Merten, his crew, and Dutch angler Leo Cloostermans (also owner of the boat) were looking to make some history. They were about to, in a big way. Cloostermans hooked up a marlin on 8-pound-test mono early on. But it wasn’t the marlin: “After several minutes of fighting, I could see this fish wasn’t big enough to break the existing 8-pound record, already held by Mr. Cloostermans,” writes Merten in an account of the catch. The next morning, just after 10 o’clock, shouts of “Marlin in the spread!” put everyone on alert, as Merten watched a fish he guessed to be around 500 pounds. “I called for 4-pound (test),” he says. “As the fish was being teased up, I saw much more color than I had, and considered asking for 8-pound.” But at that point, the team was pretty committed to the 4-pound. The fish’s pecs and tail glowed a bright blue as mate Scott “Chief” Lewis expertly kept the big Mold Craft Softhead just ahead of the fish. Then, after all teasers were cleared, the big squid rigged on Cloosterman’s wispy line went into the water. The fish broke the surface behind the bait and inhaled it.

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