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Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison last week announced the names of 23 U. S. warboats new-built and building. Battleships: Iowa and New Jersey. Cruisers: Cleveland and Columbia. Seaplane tenders: Casco and Mackinac. Submarines: Marlin, Grayling, Grenadier, Gudgeon, Mackerel, Gar, Grampus, Grayback. Repair ship: Vulcan. Destroyers (for Navy heroes): Woolsey, Ludlow, Wilkes, Nicholson, Ericsson, Ingraham, Edison (for Thomas Alva, the Acting Secretary's father), Swanson (for his predecessor...
...Usual tackle for marlin and tuna in Bahaman waters: 39-thread line, 14/0 real and 30-oz. tip. Some anglers even use 72-thread line, 16/0 reel...
...have religiously plugged the fishing ports of Montauk Pt., Peconic Bay and Manasquan, while for Maryland you merely show a weakfish. Did you know that one of the best fishing grounds in the East lies off Ocean City, MARYLAND? That there are to be had silver marlin, tuna, blues, and, so several veterans insist, blue marlin? . . . And also, if you think that Cape Hatteras has channel bass, why not try down around Chincoteague? Otherwise, your article was pretty good...
Among those who witnessed the weighing-in on Cat Cay's swank little dock was New York Sportsman Tommy Shevlin, one of the best big-game anglers in the world,* whom Mrs. Sears displaced as world's record holder for blue marlin. Her fish weighed 94 Ib. more than the 636-pounder he caught in the same waters on June 19, 1935-with a 54-thread line. Angling authorities thought Mary Sears's catch the largest game fish ever taken with a 24-thread line...
With a 24-thread line, 10/0 reel and 18-oz. rod tip (much lighter tackle than is generally used), Mrs. Sears boated a 730-lb. blue marlin, a new world's record, in the Bahaman waters off Cat Cay.† It took her only one hour and 27 minutes to stop his rushes, lick him, land...