Charles Perry

CP (as he is widely known) is probably the most experienced deckhand in the game fishing industry world wide. While he wasn't there in 1966 to wire the first 1,000lb Black Marlin on the Great Barrier Reef, he wasn't far behind! Born into a fishing family in North Carolina, he began charter fishing with his father at the age of six and has traveled the world, working with some of the finest captains. Away from the GBR, he runs a Paul Spencer built boat - Arin - in Madeira, wires tuna for the Stanford University Tag-a-Tuna program and is an instructor in Marlin Magazine's Marlin University.

In the Caribbean, he wired over 50 blue marlin six years in a row and he has spent fifteen seasons on the Great Barrier Reef, weighing in 29 black marlin over 1000lbs (and releasing many others), including a then Australian Record 1,417lbs fish. Wiring for internationally known angler Stewart Campbell for 12 years, he fished Ghana and the Ivory Coast, Africa as well as Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. CP wired five blue marlin world records and five spear fish world records during this time.

Some of his career highlights include -

2007 Wired 1,120lb Black Marlin, Linden Bank, GBR (his 29th weighed over 1,000lb)
2006 Wired 1,000+lb Black Marlin on 3 consecutive days, GBR
2002 Wired World Record 8lb line class Blue Marlin 336 lb, La Gomera
        Wired World Record 16lb line class Spearfish 67 lb, La Gomera
2001 Wired World Record 6lb line class Blue Marlin 336 lb, Cape Verde
2000 Wired World Record 6lb line class Spearfish 52 lb, La Gomera
1999 Wired World Record 8lb line class Spearfish 45.6 lb, Madeira
1996 Wired World Record 12lb line class Spearfish 62.75 lb, Madeira
        Wired World Record (Woman) 30lb line class Blue Marlin 708 lb, Madeira
1995 Wired World Record 30lb line class Blue Marlin 872 lb, Madeira
1992 Wired World Record 16lb line class Blue Marlin 820 lb, Ivory Coast
1990 Wired World Record 20lb line class Blue Marlin 714.5 lb, Ivory Coast
1973 Wired Australian All Tackle Record Black Marlin 1,417 lb, GBR