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...fishing is almost incredible. The narrow gulf between the east coast of the peninsula and the western shore of Mexico itself is a great natural trap for billions of game fish that are swept into the area by Pacific currents. The place teems with black, blue and striped marlin, tuna, swordfish. cabrilla, barracuda, yellowtail, bonito, dolphin and roosterfish...
...marlin, particularly, are as easy to take as the warm sun. What's more, they are on hand ten months a year. The legal catch is one per person, or three per boat each day, and just about the only way to avoid a strike is to neglect to set a line...
That is precisely how Ike went home emptyhanded; he had a slight cold and so never did get to wet a line. Crosby, a self-styled "nut" on light tackle, likes to use a 10-lb. line; last week he caught a fine striped marlin (they run from 115 lbs. to 190 lbs.) this way, though most of his catches are dolphin, roosterfish and other fighters in the 25-to 40-lb. range...
...Bahamas (no personal property tax; no real estate tax; no income tax). dedicated golfers cluster around Eleuthera's sprawling Cotton Bay Club, where Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe and friends have a magnificent seaside golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones. Fishing buffs who yearn after marlin and giant tuna congregate at Cat Cay, which Ad Tycoon Louis R. Wasey has turned into a fishing paradise for himself. 15 fellow estatesmen, and up to 36 approved paying guests. On a 4,000-acre islet called Lyford Cay in Nassau harbor, Canadian Financier Edward Plunket Taylor has spent...
Wirges also discovered who ran the county machine: Marlin Hawkins, 47, a paunchy, cigar-chomping native son, who is a per sonal friend of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and has been Conway County sheriff since 1950. Another Wirges discovery: after every county election, special election deputies, appointed by Hawkins, carried the ballot boxes to the courthouse (a common practice in Arkansas...