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...toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from the south made shambles of the shipyards of Greenport, unroofed a full movie theatre...
Blue marlin have often been sighted off Montauk; two years ago an 892-pounder was harpooned. Getting them to take a bait is the problem in northern waters...
Miserable though it made people on land, the "humiture wave" (see p. 9) brought joy to seagoing sportsmen, especially to anglers after big game fish off Montauk Point, L. I. There, unaccustomed water temperatures (as high as 76°) brought Gulf Stream fish out of their normal ranges. Last week a blue runner was caught, and Sportsman S. Clay Williams Jr. hooked & landed the first blue marlin ever taken off Montauk on rod & reel, a 215-pounder...
This summer, Christian W. Feigenspan, brewer of Newark's Pride of the Nation Beer, sponsored seven prizes for Eastern saltwater anglers. The first six were run-of-the-mine $250 and $100 prizes for largest fish caught between Montauk Point and Cape May. The seventh, which appeared to be a jest, was $100 for the smallest tuna under five pounds caught anywhere along the Atlantic Coast. Actually, the very serious object of the prize was to find a clue to the long-sought breeding places of tuna. All entries were to be sent to the Federal Trust...
Next day, convoyed by the destroyer Selfridge, the Potomac cruised off Montauk Point, the eastern tip of Long Island. The fishing was atrocious. First day's catch was one bass and "two miserable what-nots," one of which attached itself to the Presidential line. Next day's was just as bad. The third day of the cruise, when the President's onetime law partner Basil O'Connor joined the party, there was no fishing at all. Stormbound and anchored off Block Island, the President resigned himself to a press conference. Fourth day, en route back...