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A spanking line squall worked its way along the Florida Keys and its backlash sent a wet wind whistling into the Key Largo bedroom of Captain Tom Gifford. The stocky man in the double bed rolled over and mumbled: "Southeast wind-that means the tuna are at Cat Cay." More...
Tom Gifford has spent 40 years fighting with fish and the men who want to catch them. He has done the job so well that he is generally rated the greatest saltwater fishing guide in the world. Over the years, he calculates, he has boated some 300,000 Ibs. of...
Private Rules. Gifford's fee is $70 a day, and much fancier boats than his stubby, 26-ft. Stormy Petrel are available for less. But Gifford is booked up six and seven weeks in advance. He has his own standards, and they are exacting. He will not fish with...
Another rule: no more than 72-lb. test line for anglers who weigh under 200 Ibs.; no more than null test line for the heavyweights. Gifford has nothing but explosive contempt for "muscleheads" who insist on fishing for saltwater monsters with "rope." He explains, between oaths: "Most fishermen aren'...
Chaos, Contd. Britain backed the compromise, but Canada did not. Last week, in full plenary session, Canada's proposal of a twelve-mile exclusive fishing zone was defeated. A Russian twelve-mile territorial sea proposal mustered only 21 ayes to 47 nays. The closest to come to victory, with...