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Tommy Gifford has seen Big Daddy "at least six times." A charterboat captain for 50 years, Gifford, 71, had his first encounter with a giant blue off Bimini in 1936. "I was skippering for a fisherman named Mike Lerner," recalls Gifford, "and we hooked into this fish at 3 p.m. What a scene that was! The marlin jumped 25 times, and tail-walked through the entire fleet of boats. At one point, he jumped so close to my boat that he threw barrels of water into our faces and darned near drowned us. We fought him for eight hours until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Big Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home? | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

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