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...Week before, during the Cat Cay tuna tournament, Tommy Shevlin landed three tuna - a 382-pounder, a 406-pounder, a 485-pounder -within 62 minutes. Fellow fishermen thought it a world's record...
...weighing-in on Cat Cay's swank little dock was New York Sportsman Tommy Shevlin, one of the best big-game anglers in the world,* whom Mrs. Sears displaced as world's record holder for blue marlin. Her fish weighed 94 Ib. more than the 636-pounder he caught in the same waters on June 19, 1935-with a 54-thread line. Angling authorities thought Mary Sears's catch the largest game fish ever taken with a 24-thread line...
Most pugnacious little game fish is the bluefish. Around Cape Cod anglers are still trying to equal the world's-record 25-pounder taken off Cohasset in 1874-oldest salt-water-mark in record-books. Among this generation of fishermen, no one has come within eight pounds...
...striped bass is the copper-colored channel bass, a surf fish whose sportiness is confined to acting like a Japanese tumbler. Last week, around Cape Hatteras, No. 1 locale for channel bass, surfcasters were hopefully trying to beach one bigger than the world's record 74-pounder taken off Virginia...
...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. There the world's record 636-pounder was boated in 1935. Broadbill, fishing for which is most difficult (because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked), and most expensive (because many fruitless attempts make boat hire costly), migrate as far north as Cape Breton, N. S., where a 601-pounder, a North...