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...dusk the Nourmahal rounded Manhattan Island, shoved its knife-edged nose through Hell Gate and out into Long Island Sound. By morning it was anchored in Fort Pond Bay near Montauk Point. Because the weather was drizzly, the President lazed about all day, reading, resting. The third day, wearing only a pair of duck trousers, he went off fishing on the sloop Orca under the guidance of bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain...
...Vasco da Gama in Lisbon will pay a reward, amount unstated. In previous experiments, Portugal's tagged tuna have been caught in the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean. But the tuna is a world wanderer. One of this year's 60 might well turn up off Montauk, Beach Haven or Miami...
...coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing 976 lb., hooked in 1926. The sport of catching swordfish on a hook instead of by harpoon is comparatively new. The sport of catching them off Montauk Point, L. I., and nearby Block Island is even newer, although broadbills are found the world over...
Since Mr. Grinnell began trolling for broadbills where Long Island Sound joins the Atlantic, many another fisherman has gone there for the sport, preferring cool Montauk to torrid Cuba in the summer months. Many a Florida fishing captain works out of Montauk every year now. The ablest ones include Captains Bill Hatch, Bill Fagan, Howard Lance, Charlie Thompson, Tom Gifford...
...with a Montauk captain costs $50. but you can take three or four others along and split the price. Tackle is provided, consisting usually of a 16-oz. rod, a reel the size of a coffee tin, some 1,200 ft. of No. 36 thread line, 15 ft. of copper leader. Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish. A fresh squid is sewed onto the hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take...