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...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 Gray: "Fish don't bite any faster for a President than they...
...Atlantic off Palm Beach aboard Captain Herman Gray's sloop Orca, President Hoover's luck changed. His first day's catch: three sails (one 7 ft., 8 in.) and a dolphin. The second day he got two more "sails," one of which was barely an inch too short to win him the "diamond button" awarded by the Sailfish Club of Florida for eight-footers...