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...perilous, seemingly impossible ' assignment of exploring the secret world of the Arab commandos for this week's cover story fell principally to Beirut Bureau Chief Edward Hughes. Meanwhile Jerusalem Stringer Marlin Levin and Rome Correspondent John Shaw pursued essential details on the Israeli side...
Dozens of other anglers have tangled with Big Daddy-and always come off second best. A few years ago, Bermuda's Captain Russell Young had an epic 31-hour battle with a marlin that he estimated at 15 ft. long. Young actually brought the fish to gaff six times. Each time the gaff tore loose, and Big Daddy finally escaped when the line parted. Last year Dr. Lyman Spire of Fayetteville, N.Y., was trolling off St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands when a monster blue crashed the bait on his ul tralight 12-lb.-test line. Spire...
High Price. One big incentive behind the hunt for Big Daddy is the price on his head. Miami's Tycoon/Fin-Nor Corp. will pay $5,000 to the first angler who lands a 1,000-lb. blue marlin on its fishing tackle; there is another $1-per-lb. reward if the fish is caught off the Virgin Islands, and $10,000 if it is boated off Puerto Rico...
...reached the grounds and was still wiping his sunglasses when it happened. "I glanced out," he recalls, "and there was this s.o.b., coming like blazes with his mouth wide open. I struck him, and that brute jumped 19 times." It took Fishman 3 hrs. 28 min. to boat the marlin. At the dock four hours later (during which time it undoubtedly lost weight by dehydration), the marlin measured 13 ft. 1 in. in length and tipped the scales at 845 lbs.-a new world record...
...Daddy is still out there waiting. Only a day after Fishman broke the record, David Massey, another Virgin Islander, was fighting a 700-lb. blue marlin when he looked over his shoulder and saw "ten or twelve others circling the boat, including one that had to be 20 ft. long." The guesses on the weight of that fish range...