Word: hodgson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intensive study of the financial conditions of University teaching fellows will soon be inaugurated," Richard C. Hodgson 2G, Student Council member, stated last night...
...standard routine in going after the big boys (300 Ibs. and up) is to use a batch of expensive equipment, hire a trim cruiser with a smart crew, then settle comfortably into a special swivel chair and wait for the fish to bite. Commander Hodgson got his tuna the hard...
...line the experts used in the tuna-fishing tournaments. He caught his own bait, a small mackerel. Then he hired 65-year-old veteran Guide Percy MacRitchie to row him out to the tuna grounds in an 18-ft. dory. The sea was calm-until the big fish struck. Hodgson struck back, hooking the fish with all the weight of his solid (190 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) frame. The battle began...
...hour and 20 minutes Hodgson played the giant fish while Guide Mac-Ritchie tried to row the boat toward shore. The tuna pulled the boat twelve miles around St. Ann Bay before it was finally played out and beached itself. During the struggle, the 9-ft.-9-in. fish bent the 3-in., U-shaped steel hook into an L. But the hook held...
...held a record-breaking 977-pounder, heaviest tuna ever taken on a rod & reel (old record: 927 Ibs.). Commander Hodgson, 49, a fisherman in the best tradition, claimed he had seen an even bigger one that day. Said he: "It just wouldn't bite...