Capturing marlin, sailfish, and swordfish on a fishing pole is among the peaks of the sport. It’s a great deal of effort, and typically costs a reasonable quantity of cash, too. However it remains in these envelope-pushing ventures that we have the ability to make a few of the very best jumps forward in fly fishing.
Jeremy Block is the very first individual to ever record capturing a broadbill swordfish on fly take on, and in late 2024, he might have clinched another initially. He boated a swordfish that clocked in at 100 pounds, 15 ounces. Block captured this fish off the coast of Kenya, in the evening. If licensed by the International Video Game Fish Association, this catch will end up being the world-record swordfish captured on a fishing pole, and the first-ever swordfish in excess of 100 pounds to have actually been captured on fly take on.
This was all reported by Peter Cotezee in Marlin Mag
The existing world record is an 89-pound swordfish captured by Fouad Sahioui in 1998.
You can check out a first-person account of the catch, from Jeremy Block, here.
