South African angler Trevor Hansen caught his first billfish, a Pacific sailfish, on February 27, 1991 while fishing off the coast of Comores, Africa . Almost twenty years to the date and eight billfish species later, Trevor became the first South African member of the IGFA’s prestigious Billfish Royal Slam Club. All of Hansen’s Pacific billfish were caught from his native land of South Africa , with the exception of his Pacific sailfish and his Pacific blue marlin, which were caught near Kona , Hawaii
