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Big game fishing originated in Avalon when Charles Frederick Holder caught a 183 pound Blue Fin Tuna with sport fish tackle on June 1, 1898. This angling milestone inspired him to form the Tuna Club of Santa Catalina Island, an organization dedicated to promoting conservation of marine resources and good sportsmanship among anglers. Vast schools of tuna once commonly arrived in early summer within view of the island, often amazing onlookers with their spectacular leaps after flying fish. A striped Marlin was first caught here in 1903, and the Broadbill Swordfish symbolizes the world's earliest sportfishing capture of that species in 1913.
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Avalon, California · United States
