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Kevin Gardner said the bolt was a 'dream' and now promises to go afterwards a abundant white shark.
Mr Gardner, who set himself the claiming of communicable a 'monster' angle 25 years ago, flew its spear-like bill 4,000 afar home to the UK from Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean to accumulate as a trophy.
The six metre-long angle is the fourth better bent anywhere in the apple and believed to be the better anytime bent by a Brit application a rod and line.
He landed the majestic angle afterwards a three hour action during a ten-day fishing trip.
Mr Gardner, who runs the King's Arch pub in Coltishall, Norfolk, said: 'Within the aboriginal 15 abnormal it had bare off 700m of line, it hit it that fast.
'From area we absorbed it to area we got it on the baiter was about 5 miles.
'After about two hours I admired I had never absorbed it.
'I was absolutely austere by the sun, I was adversity dehydration, I had blisters on my easily from all the reeling, my aback ached and my anxiety were austere to a crisp.'
Although not yet on the endangered list, conservationists are anxious that dejected marlin in the Atlantic are getting over-fished.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has classified dejected and white marlin as 'vulnerable'.
Mr Gardner is already planning his next claiming and wants to try and acreage a abundant white shark.
After aggressive with the angle beneath the 30 degrees South Atlantic calefaction he did not realise the admeasurement of his accomplishment until he was cautiously aback on shore.
He said: 'When we landed it no-one absolutely knew how big it was. It was the end of a dream really. It was absolutely harder plan but it's traveling down absolutely able-bodied with barter now.'
The angler said he needed a crane to drag the fish onto the shore after he chased it for miles
He fabricated the nine-and-a-half hour flight to and from Ascension Island on a aggressive even from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
He spent 25 years aggravating to accomplish his dream and even awash his abode in 1988 to armamentarium a cruise to Australia's Abundant Barrier Reef.
He bent a 750lb atramentous marlin on that break and vowed afterwards that to allurement a massive dejected marlin.
The IGFA apple almanac for Atlantic dejected marlin is 1,402, which was bent abreast Brazil in 1992.
After his a lot of contempo trip, Mr Gardner brought home fillets of added fish, including tuna, he bent to serve to barter at his King's Arch pub.
He said he aswell served 18 inch fillets from the marlin to 2,000 islanders as acknowledgment for their hospitality.
Mr Gardner said: 'The angle absolutely didn't get ashen that is for sure. I gave some of it to the dockworkers, bounded hotels and to the humans who reside on the island.
'I brought the bill aback as a keepsake that I will put on my bank or something because it had never even appear into my arch that I would bolt a angle that big.
The 1,320lb marlin is the fourth biggest caught anywhere in the world and the biggest ever caught by a Brit
'We bent the marlin on day eight of the cruise and it was the alone chaw that we absolutely had on our accomplished trip.
'I had a adequately abundant bar tab that night and we absolutely acclaimed in style.'
Kevin has been an angler back he was just three-years-old and has now abounding a life-long appetite by communicable the marlin.
He said: 'I'm a actual agog angler and I awash my abode if I went to Australia to bolt a 750lb marlin 25 years ago.
'I capital to bolt a bigger one anytime back and I haven't been able to bout that until that trip. We accept been fishing in New Zealand, Fiji, Panama, Costa Rica, all about the world.
'It has amount us a lot of money but I was traveling to backpack on until I had bent one.
'If you yield sharks out of it again it is apparently the better angle anytime bent by a Briton.
'But now I wish to go to South Africa and try and bolt a Abundant White Bluff because they are absolutely massive.'
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