Professor Charles Frederick Holder and boatman Jim Gardner [Mexican Joe?] displaying the "Record Cath" tuna in Avalon, Catalina Island, 1898

Photograph of Professor Charles Frederick Holder and boatman Jim Gardner [Mexican Joe?] displaying a fish at Catalina, 1898. A large tuna fish can be seen at right hung by its gills from a pole. Jim Gardner is visible at center. He is wearing a large straw hat, vest and long pants. He has a long pole with a large metal hook at left. Dr. Holder is visible at left and can be seen wearing a corduroy suit and striped hat. He has a gray beard and glasses and is holding a long fishing pole. Holder was a conservationist, sportsman, and professor of Piscatorial science. Please note that some sources identify the boatman as "Mexican Joe" (also known as Jose Felice Presiado). "Avalon, June 2. -- Prof. C.F. Holder of Pasadena, after a fight of about four hours in a heavy sea, with Jim Gardner as boatman, made the record catch probably of the world yesterday, taking a leaping tuna weighing 183 ponds on rod and reel and twenty-one cuttuhunk line..." -- LA Herald, June 3rd, 1898.