A former Kiwi Olympian has landed a 163.4kg black marlin while out spear fishing - the first to be caught in New Zealand waters. Moss Burmester, who set the Commonwealth record for butterfly at the 2008 Olympics, said catching the enormous fish was ``like riding a bull''. ``The actual fight of landing the black marlin was pretty epic, it put up a crazy fight,'' he told the Herald. ``I was holding on to the bill and just getting lifted up out of the water and getting slammed back down. Burmester said spear fishing had replaced swimming as his preferred form of exercise these days.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 07, 2017 07:16 UTC