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Dr. Charles F. Holder
1851 - 1915
1998 Inductee
Dr. Charles F. Holder is known as the first man to catch a tuna with rod and reel. He caught it off the southern coast of California near Catalina Island. Holder subsequently founded The Tuna Club at Catalina and was an early and important activist for marine conservation. When Holder moved from Massachusetts to California in 1885, he brought with him an insatiable curiosity for nature. He was a naturalist, author and former assistant curator of zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. His love of nature had developed in his youth as he collected specimens with his father, who was also a famous naturalist and co-founder of the American Museum of Natural History. When Dr. Holder visited Catalina Island, he wrote that he was astonished by the abundance and variety of marine life: the waters literally teemed with fish. He also noted the regular slaughter of fish by anglers with handlines, and was appalled by the lack of sportsmanship and the massive waste. Though there is some controversy over whether Holder was actually the first man to catch a tuna on rod and reel, it is certain that Holder was the first to use the event for the advancement of game fishing. As history reads, Holder was fishing from a 20-foot launch with 600 feet of 42 pound test line. He landed the 183 pound tuna after battling it for four hours over four miles. In 1898, Holder founded The Tuna Club on Catalina Island as an international organization that called for proper management of all game fish, and became a model for many similar organizations around the world including the IGFA.