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When he tried to help an angler pull in a 400-lb. tuna while boating off Elsinore, Prince Axel of Denmark, who once rescued a Swedish cinemactress from drowning, was dragged into the water. Into his boat the angler safely pulled both fish and Prince...
...Francisco's grim Alcatraz Prison, tough Gangster Alvin Karpis, onetime Public Enemy No. 1,-* asked for and was given two books: Salt Water Fishing, An American Angler in Australia...
...hook snapped off, but one of the fish (a 100-pounder) became so entangled in Angler Roosevelt's wire leader that the President was able to land it. That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.* To greet the U. S. President at Balboa came Panama's President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored...
...Angler Stanley's tackle was adequate (14-0 reel, 36-thread line) but the Mongoose's cockpit afforded him no proper foot rest to fight so big a fish. His friend, William Hale Harkness, had to spell him on the rod. Evening was at hand before they had their monster subdued-and then it sounded (dived deep). They began the laborious job of "pumping" the dying fish to the top, when violent thrashing on their line and clouds of blood deep in the water told them that something else was after their fish-sharks! By the time they...
Fishing on Recreation Pier, St. Petersburg, Fla., three years ago, W. E. Ervin of Crawfordsville, Miss., dropped his eyeglasses to the bottom of Tampa Bay. Fishing from the same spot last fortnight, Angler Ervin fished up his glasses...