Word: marline
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Most spectacular of Atlantic game fish are the swordfish family: sailfish, marlin, broadbill. Almost any day in the year a sailfish can be caught in the Gulf Stream off Palm Beach-and frequently anywhere from Palm Beach to Key West where the biggest Atlantic sail ever recorded (119 Ibs.) was caught in 1934. White Marlin (world's record 161 Ibs. ), presumably move up the coast from Miami in the spring, reach New Jersey about the Fourth of July. Blue Marlin are plentiful in the summer (from late June) at Bimini, B. W. I., famed fishing paradise of the Atlantic...
...first week the largest fish registered was an Allison tuna weighing 138½ Ibs., the biggest sailfish a not spectacular 71½ pounder. But fishermen were hopeful. A world-record white marlin (161 Ibs.) was caught off Miami last spring...
...inconspicuously as many a rich boy does. From St. Paul's School he went to Harvard, where he roomed in dowdy Kirkland House, concentrated in government, joined Hasty Pudding and Owl. No college athlete, slender George Baker made news in 1936 when he caught a 622-lb. black marlin off Panama. He made news again last summer with his marriage to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia descendant of Astors and Biddies...
...they pulled in was the tail-section, up to the ventral rudder fins, of a blue marlin which would easily have broken all northern-water records...