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Throw It at Him. Experts estimate that the odds against an angler simply spotting a broadbill on any given day are 10 to 1. Even then the odds against hooking the fish are 15 to 1. Swordfish have to be coddled into taking a bait; with a full stomach only the most dessert-happy sword can be tempted by mackerel or squid. Fishermen have been known to make ten or more passes before a lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait...
...then the struggle begins, and an unfair battle it is-for the angler. Gladius in a towering rage can strip 1.000 yds. of 80-lb.-test line off an angler's reel in the space of seconds. Unlike his cousin the marlin, he rarely wastes effort on grandstanding jumps. He runs and rolls and thrashes about, often entangling himself in the protective wire leader on the end of the line-and snaps the 500-lb.-test wire like a piece of string. Or he may charge the boat-and if he does, the boat had better...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder's latest jab at American mores involves a money-grubbing angler (Walter Matthau) who uses his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) as bait to hook a large insurance company and cheat it out of a tax-free...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder's latest slap at American mores involves a money-grubbing angler (Walter Matthau) who uses his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) as bait to hook a large insurance company and cheat it out of a tax-free...
...Gatchell, as his oilskinned model. He rummaged junk shops to find the bell that served to symbolize a stalwart ship struggling across a boiling sea, only visible itself as a glimpse of whitecaps. It is a distant and different sea that splashes in watercolors in Shell Heap, with an angler bending to his catch while the breezy skies of Florida seem to whip palm fronds into an ominous rattle...