He Wasn’t Even Trying — The Accidental World Record Kingfish, Rick Pollock

🎣 Get the Net – Tight Lines, Loose Lips! 🎙️ · Oct 19, 2026 · 1h 35m

Captain Rick Pollock grew up in Hollywood, the son of a doctor whose patients included movie stars, and had boated 100 billfish out of Baja Mexico by the time he was 18. He arrived in New Zealand in 1978 on what was meant to be a one-year contract skippering a charter boat out of Whakatane, fishing White Island — and never left. Rick sits down with Nick to share stories from nearly 50 years on the water, including White Island — his home away from home — plus the day his boat tied the All Tackle world record kingfish, and a career built almost entirely around the country's most obsessed-over…