Australia. Broadbill Swordfish from the shore. A world first?

I've attached a clipping from a New South Wales (Australia) newspaper - unfortunately its rather poor quality - that reports the recent capture of a Swordfish from the shore. The 'baby', that’s all it was, was 1.21 cm long and weighed 3.9kgs.

In parts of Australia, with access to deep water from cliffs, a select group of anglers have, drifting baits out, caught Marlin. And I've also heard of small Black Marlin being taken by fly anglers fishing inshore in very shallow water, but this is the first Swordfish I've ever heard of taken from the shore. How about you? Has anyone heard of such a capture before?

For anyone interested in my earlier comments about Marlin from the shore there're some images and links to YouTube video here - 2 ends of the spectrum - Marlin from the shore and Ultimate Lady.

Zitat von milchner

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I would be very interested to learn more about shore-based fishing for pelagic fish. Have you ever heard from the shore-fishing at the sceleton coast at Namibia? They catch HUUUUGE Sharks there.

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They do get big Bronze Whalers in Namibia. But South Africa also produces numbers of shore caught sharks. I recall, in years gone by, they used to catch numbers of large Great Whites. Although not quite in that league they are occasionally encountered from the shore as post 63 on this thread - http://www.worldseafishing.com…hread.php?t=175990&page=7 - illustrates