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...game fishing, like any other kind of fishing, is partly a matter of luck-being at the right place at the right time. One day last week, Commander Duncan Hodgson of the Royal Canadian Navy was at the right place, St. Ann Bay, Nova Scotia, at the right time, 1 p.m. He caught a whopper. Moreover, he did it with almost primitive disregard for what U.S. tuna experts consider standard routine...
...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...
Murphy is a part of Harvard's Parapsychology tradition. He was one of the first research follows to work under the University's Hodgson fund for investigation of psychic powers, and from 1922 to 1925 to pioneered in the field of scientifically controlled investigation of such extra-sensory powers as telepathy and clairvoyance...