Auckland angler Donna Pascoe has potentially snagged another International Game Fish Association world record after landing a huge southern blue fin tuna this week.

Using a 60kg line, Donna took 11 minutes to reel in the massive 80.54kg tuna which she says was caught about 100km off the coast of Great Barrier Island early on Monday, just before 7am.

Auckland angler Donna Pascoe potentially has another International Game Fish Association world record under name after landing an 80.54kg southern bluefin tuna on Monday. Photo: Gladiator Charter Boat/Facebook

Compared to the more than four hour battle she had landing a world-record breaking 411.6kg Pacific bluefin tuna back in 2014 – this tuna was a lightweight.

'It didn't put up any fight, I thought it might have been a Skippy (silver trevally) the way it came in,” she recalls, 'Now I'm thinking the water must've been so cold the tuna wanted to jump on-board to warm up!

'We learned the IGFA's women's record in the 60kg line class was vacant, so went out there specifically to target the record and it's really paid off.

'All the women's records in other line classes were taken by ladies from Australia, so we needed to have a Kiwi in there!”

Donna is now in the process of filing her record with the IGFA but expects it will take some time to learn the result of her catch.

Donna and Ken Pascoe with the world-record breaking 411.6kg Pacific bluefin tuna she caught in 2014. Photo: Gladiator Charter Boat/Facebook

On Monday Donna landed the tuna from her vessel Gladiator – a charter boat which she and husband Ken Pascoe own and operate.

Fishing was not a past time that Donna had grown up with, she admits to have only taken it up seriously, perhaps even religiously, back in 2009.

Since then the majority of Donna's fishing stories have ended in success and she's landed a number of amazing fish.

One particular species which often finds its way onto the end of her hook are striped marlin, but Donna says once caught nearly all of them are put back into the ocean.

'We'll usually take one marlin each season just so we can feed people; families, friends and customers on the boat,” explains Donna. 'All the rest we will tag and release, which Ken and I are hugely passionate about.

'With the southern bluefin tuna we caught we'll make sure it's dished out around Whitianga.”

Donna celebrating the catch of the 80.54kg southern bluefin tuna on Monday morning. Photo: Gladiator Charter Boat/Facebook

For Donna, landing a massive fish like the tuna on Monday is an incredible feeling and an experience she thinks people should try at least once in their life.

She describes it as a 'major adrenaline rush”, which is quite handy when you think about all the strength and energy an angler exerts when landing these Leviathans of the deep.

'As you're hauling the fish in you don't put a lot of thought into what you're doing, but afterwards you can't sleep because you can't stop thinking about it and being amazed by the experience.

'The only bad thing now is I have to carry my own luggage, I can't get away with saying they're too heavy now!”