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...steadily in his Manhattan apartment, to the delight of his six children. What Kennedy and Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum wanted was an expert appraisal of what spots should be concentrated on. That appraisal was supplied by Reporter Peter Borrelli and Researcher Sandra Burton after endless hours spent scanning reel after reel of nothing but commercials recorded through the past 20 years...
...might be the evening scene in any city slum. Unkempt youths clot the stoops of dilapidated tenements, talking overboldly of drugs; drunks reel along gutters foul with garbage; young toughs from neighboring turf methodically proposition every girl who passes by, while older strangers hunt homosexual action. The night air smells of decay and anger. For all its ugly familiarity, however, this is not just another ghetto. This is the scene in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, once the citadel of hippiedom and symbol of flower-power love...
What's more, the mountain is there for everyone. No one but a weight lifter or a masochist can pretend to enjoy wrestling with a heavy reel that spans 6 in. across and weighs 101 lbs.-assuming they can afford the cost (up to $800 for the biggest Fin-Nor model). Yet a six-year-old youngster or a 60-year-old grandmother can play all day with a little 2½/Oreel and a rod as supple as a willow wand. Last February Mrs. Evelyn M. Anderson, 60, a Glendale, Calif., housewife, boated a 353-lb. black marlin...
Twang & Plane. It takes genuine skill and some luck. No serious pressure can be exerted on the line; yet the fish cannot be permitted to strip too much off the reel, or the fragile line may break just from its own weight in the water. Light-tackle anglers try to distract and turn a running fish by twanging the taut line with their fingers; if the fish persists in running, they must rev up their boat engines and give chase, trying to retrieve enough line to get the fish back under control. A heavy fish that chooses to sound deep...
...armed with nothing more substantial than fly rods basically designed for fresh-water trout. Surprisingly, they sometimes make a catch. Off Ecuador last year, Lee Wulff patiently cast to 20 striped marlin before he finally snagged a 148-lb. beauty with his $12 fly rod and $20 reel. That fight took a mere 4½ hours. Stu Apte has a 151-lb. tarpon to his credit, caught on a fly rod with a 12-lb.-test leader. Bob Zwirz, 42, a fishing writer, actually used the same fly rod last year to catch a 5-lb. brook trout in Canada...