Word: bonefish
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SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Ted Williams, onetime baseball great and now a fishing demon, gives some tips on how to catch Florida's elu-I sive bonefish; from there, Host Curt Gowdy travels north to Canada for some wonderful salmon fishing with a pair of winsome lady anglers...
...ancient Hawaii for his guests, offers them skin diving, sunfish sailing, and trips in his Jeep across the cinder beds and lava fields to explore ancient native burial caves. In the sleepy village of Kailua-Kona, close to some of the most exciting fishing grounds of the world (bonefish, blue marlin, Ahi and the jack crevalle), the venerable Kona Inn and the newer (1960) King Kamehameha are being joined by a $4,000,000 Kona Hilton, due to be finished in December 1967. The Bishop Estate (which owns 9% of the land in the state) has nearly finished the first...
Considering the 6-ft. 8-in. size of the man, it was like looking for a needle in a bonefish. Dining with University of British Columbia dons in Vancouver, Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 57, choked on a bony hunk of the area's famed broiled salmon. As he told it, "There followed a contest, between myself and the salmon, that was a great sporting event on the whole. At the hospital, they tried casting for it; then they trolled for it, and that didn't work either. And then, after they used, a general anesthetic, I learned...
...first touch of the hook, enraged steelies will "tail-walk" like marlin, leap like tarpon 5 ft. above the water, run like bonefish-stripping 150 yds. of line off a screaming reel in one lightning burst. They have even been known to rush a boat and leap over the fisherman's head in a frantic effort to escape. The battle may last anywhere from 15 min. to an hour-and steelies get more tricky as they tire. Then they will bulldog to the river bottom and jam their heads in the gravel until the hook rubs...
...fish like that commands respect, sir. Solicitude, even. "Bonefish fight so hard that they almost deserve to get away," says Pete Perinchief, 43, director of Bermuda's Fishing Information Bureau and a bonefish evangelist. He fishes only with artificial lures ("More sporting, y'know"), once caught a 13-pounder on 6-lb.-test line-and releases practically every fish he lands. He even has a technique for reviving a fish that has fought so long and hard that it no longer has the strength to swim. Gently cradling the fish in one hand, he wiggles its tail until...