Word: marlin
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...Hemingwayesque adventure. It was 4:45 when Skipper Russell Young of the charter boat Sea Wolfe hollered "Strike!" as a reel, loaded with 800 yds. of 30-lb.-test monofilament line, began to sing. Clarke grabbed the rod, set the hook, and gaped with astonishment as a monstrous blue marlin leaped clear of the water. "My God," breathed Young. "A 450-pounder, at least...
...epic battle. Hour after hour, while day turned to night and night to day, Clarke and the great fish fought it out at opposite ends of a slender nylon thread no thicker than a pencil mark. Seven times the marlin jumped-great bill-slashing leaps that carried it 10 ft. into the air. A dozen times, while Skipper Young deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). For the season's opener, Van Heflin fishes for marlin off Chub Cay in the Bahamas, and Bing Crosby and Phil Harris hunt sand grouse in Tanzania...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Host Marlin Perkins travels to Rhodesia's Wankie Game Preserve to demonstrate how "To Catch a Giraffe...
...then the struggle begins, and an unfair battle it is-for the angler. Gladius in a towering rage can strip 1.000 yds. of 80-lb.-test line off an angler's reel in the space of seconds. Unlike his cousin the marlin, he rarely wastes effort on grandstanding jumps. He runs and rolls and thrashes about, often entangling himself in the protective wire leader on the end of the line-and snaps the 500-lb.-test wire like a piece of string. Or he may charge the boat-and if he does, the boat had better...