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...story of a fish is not always a fish story. But any story about Big Daddy sounds like one. Big Daddy is an Atlantic blue marlin. Nobody knows how big he is, but he is no smaller than 1,000 lbs. Nobody knows, either, how many of him there are, but his nickname is surely generic. And he is the most coveted catch...
...least six times." A charterboat captain for 50 years, Gifford, 71, had his first encounter with a giant blue off Bimini in 1936. "I was skippering for a fisherman named Mike Lerner," recalls Gifford, "and we hooked into this fish at 3 p.m. What a scene that was! The marlin jumped 25 times, and tail-walked through the entire fleet of boats. At one point, he jumped so close to my boat that he threw barrels of water into our faces and darned near drowned us. We fought him for eight hours until he straightened a 14/0 hook into...
...fisherman had caught his first dozen sailfish, and heaved enough tuna on the deck to keep the family in sandwiches for years, what sport was there left in the game? What was left was to match the tackle to the fish-and watch his smoke. The 70-lb. white marlin that died like a guppy on the end of 130-lb. line suddenly came alive when the rig was reduced to 30 lb., flashing across the ocean in wild greyhounding leaps; the 50-lb. wahoo that expired without a peep on the end of 80-lb. test lived...
...model). Yet a six-year-old youngster or a 60-year-old grandmother can play all day with a little 2½/Oreel and a rod as supple as a willow wand. Last February Mrs. Evelyn M. Anderson, 60, a Glendale, Calif., housewife, boated a 353-lb. black marlin on 12-lb. line off Piñas Bay, Panama-thereby breaking a year-old record held by none other than her husband. The feat qualified her for membership in sport fishing's most prestigious organization: the Ten-to-One Club, started in 1960 by the Miami Beach...
...that seems a quixotic pastime, consider the fishermen who set out armed with nothing more substantial than fly rods basically designed for fresh-water trout. Surprisingly, they sometimes make a catch. Off Ecuador last year, Lee Wulff patiently cast to 20 striped marlin before he finally snagged a 148-lb. beauty with his $12 fly rod and $20 reel. That fight took a mere 4½ hours. Stu Apte has a 151-lb. tarpon to his credit, caught on a fly rod with a 12-lb.-test leader. Bob Zwirz, 42, a fishing writer, actually used the same...