Word: mackerel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After being reported missing off the coast of Maine on his 110-ft. yacht Ajax, Jabish Holmes Jr. of New York, grandson of the late Charles Fleischmann (yeast), turned up safely. His story: fishing seven miles off shore he and his friends had hooked a "700-lb." horse mackerel (tuna) which towed them far to sea, kept them up all night, then got away...
...fishes tell about the big ones they get away from, Jabish Holmes's tuna could truthfully tell a tall story. Jabish ("Horse Mackerel") Holmes Jr., onetime Harvard footballer and hockey goalguard, is six feet in length, has attained a size some four feet around the middle, would weigh easily 250 lb. on his own fish scales...
...Atlantic Ocean last week thrust another puzzle at seafaring man. Over the Georges Banks, where haddock, cod and mackerel run and the seabottom is in many spots but 12 ft. deep, a whirlpool appeared. Whirlpools, whether in the ocean like the anciently famed & feared Maelstrom west of Norway, or in rivers as below Niagara Falls, so far as man has ever known swirl towards a centre...
...lies the palm-broidered key called Treasure Island by its fun-loving owner Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune. Fishing is finer in Nassau than at Bermuda. There is good trolling for sharks, king fish, barracuda, Spanish mackerel, grouper, amberjack right off the mouth of Nassau Harbor. Only 20 mi. away is Andros Island which boasts the world's best bonefishing. Seldom over 2 ft. in length, the bonefish ranks among the world's gamiest. It feeds in extremely shallow water with its tail in the air, has two large bony plates in its mouth instead...