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...hooked into a bonefish will never forget that moment. The first touch of steel sends Albula vulpes racing away in water-spraying terror, ripping off 100 yds. or more of line, straightening hooks, breaking swivels, or maybe snarling the whole shebang around a clump of mangroves. A little six-pounder can snap an 8-lb.-test line, and a big one takes all the luck an angler can muster. Recalls Golfer Sam Snead, who set a class record that still stands by catching a 15-pounder in 1953: "I was using live shrimp. I overcast, and had to feed...
...little fish found in the world's warm waters that sends saltwater anglers into shivering ecstasy and rates up with the monster marlin and tuna. The name is bonefish (Albula vulpes, literally white fox). The biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed only 19 Ibs. A ten-pounder is worth mounting in the game room, and a 15-pounder is brags forever. Baseball's retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed a 1,235-lb. black marlin off Peru. And what does he do now? He lives in Florida, poking around...
...like that commands respect, sir. Solicitude, even. "Bonefish fight so hard that they almost deserve to get away," says Pete Perinchief, 43, director of Bermuda's Fishing Information Bureau and a bonefish evangelist. He fishes only with artificial lures ("More sporting, y'know"), once caught a 13-pounder on 6-lb.-test line-and releases practically every fish he lands. He even has a technique for reviving a fish that has fought so long and hard that it no longer has the strength to swim. Gently cradling the fish in one hand, he wiggles its tail until...
...Yourselfers. But the method has drawbacks and dangers. The WAVE developed gout* and anemia. It was the gout, and not hunger, that made her break her fast. Poe, the 550-pounder, also developed gout, and had a dangerous drop in blood pressure when he stood up. Four other patients showed the same drop in blood pressure. Only five men came through with no serious side effects, and none of these had lost more than...
...reached a climax of complete horror when Captain Fred Pereira lost his first match of the year to sophomore Jeff Stevens, and 177-pounder Lamar Fertig was disqualified after a referee called him three times for running...