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...baby moose was stuck in the mud at the edge of Watts Lake in Alberta; Marlin Perkins was nosing his shiny red canoe through the cattails and saw the problem. Thwuck, thwuck, thwuck - Perkins, in hip-high rubber waders slogged through the sludge, grabbed the mooselet around the rump and pulled it free. Next problem: How now to get Perkins out of the mud? Tooth-&-Claw. One rubber wading boot may still be mired on the shore of Watts Lake, testimony to the way that Marlin Perkins, 59, director of the St. Louis Zoo, gets into the act in each...
...Hosts Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler explore the 130,000-acre Philmont Boy Scout ranch in New Mexico...
Both Kneecaps. But they work for their prize. Not even a trout has a more jaundiced opinion of hooks. Blacks like live bait (a 5-lb. bonito does nicely), and they want it practically spoonfed to them. Some marlin will tail a bait for half an hour, only to decide that it isn't fishy enough; others give fishermen heart failure by enthusiastically grabbing the bait, then sourly spitting it out. But when the captain finally yells, "Sock him!", it's Katy bar the door. A few weeks ago at Pinas, an unprepared angler was yanked right over...
...great fish roars out of the water, sometimes jumping 12 ft. or more, as he goes raging and tail-walking across the ocean. The hook usually pulls clear at this point, or the rod breaks, or the line pops with a crack like a .38 pistol. If the marlin does decide to stay and dance awhile, he rolls in the wire leader, smashes away at it with his bill, swims off on long curving runs to get a slack "belly" in the line. If that fails, in shallow water he will sometimes jam his bill tightly into the sand...
...last resort, if the marlin is angry enough, he will even launch a banzai attack; virtually every boat in the Club de Pesca's fleet carries chunks of marlin bill embedded in its hull. Or the big black may simply outlast his tormentor. At Pinas Bay recently, a little lady from California battled a 900-lb. black marlin for nine solid hours, only to lose when darkness fell and crewmen were unable to gaff the fish...