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...hair back and reacting to the stinging high notes of the guitar with long, snaky shudders of his whole body. When he swung back to the mike, O'Leary had a red flower tucked into his pants, dangling over his fly like the nose bobble on an angler fish. O'Leary wailed into the mike 'Teach you how to ride, little girl, little girl.' " Later on, O'Leary plucks the flower from his pants and unzips himself, to the astonished edification of the teeny-boppers milling around the stage...
High Price. One big incentive behind the hunt for Big Daddy is the price on his head. Miami's Tycoon/Fin-Nor Corp. will pay $5,000 to the first angler who lands a 1,000-lb. blue marlin on its fishing tackle; there is another $1-per-lb. reward if the fish is caught off the Virgin Islands, and $10,000 if it is boated off Puerto Rico...
Closest yet to the prize was a catch made on July 4 off St. Thomas by an experienced and appropriately named big-game angler who already had 20 blues to his credit. Aboard Captain Johnny Harms's Savana Bay, Elliot Fishman had just reached the grounds and was still wiping his sunglasses when it happened. "I glanced out," he recalls, "and there was this s.o.b., coming like blazes with his mouth wide open. I struck him, and that brute jumped 19 times." It took Fishman 3 hrs. 28 min. to boat the marlin. At the dock four hours later...
Desperately disappointed? Naturally. And yet there was glory enough in the losing fight. Both angler and skipper belong to a proliferating new breed of saltwater sportsman; the light-tackle fisherman, to whom the fight is more important than the catch, and sport means giving the fish a sporting chance...
...light-tackle aficionado may hook ten fish for every one he catches. But the one is worth it. Last August, off Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Veteran Angler Lee Wulff, 63, set a world record by landing a 597-lb. bluefin tuna on 50-lb.-test line. Wulff played that bulldog of the deep for 13½ hr. before finally coaxing it to gaff. "Now I know," he sighed afterward, "what a guy feels like when he has climbed a mountain for the first time...