Word: sailfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad bosom of the Pacific Ocean enfolded Franklin Roosevelt last weekend. To its gusts he could throw the heavy cares of the Presidency, to its rollers the carking complications of politics. Behind for a while lay the names of Barkley, Thomas, Adams, McCarran, McAdoo. Ahead lay marlin, sailfish, tuna, albacore, and the wild wahoo. His secretaries put away a sheaf of delivered speeches. His fishing aides aboard the cruiser Houston unpacked a trunkful of rods, reels and tackle. Instead of shining paragraphs for the electorate, now there would be shining spoons, dancing feathers for big fish. While Harry Hopkins administered...
Deep Sea Explorer William Beebe returned to Manhattan last week from a six-month, 2,000-mile expedition, sponsored by the New York Zoological Society, off the west coast of Central America. Of the 20,000 specimens of marine life taken, prize catch was a 1½-inch sailfish, which Ichthyologist Beebe thought might be "the first example of a young sailfish ever captured...
...Average sailfish caught is eight feet long, weighs 150 pounds. Nobody knows where they are born or much else about them...
Ordinary mortals oppressed by the increasing number of big-game fishermen whose conversation about the niceties of taking sailfish, marlin, broadbill and tuna is lofty and arcane, should welcome a new book about catching huge fish by an author who neither prates of his own prowess nor rates all other quarry as paltry beside his own.* The quarry of Colonel Hugh D. Wise, U. S. Army retired, is sharks. He apologizes for this, admits that sharks are not generally eaten, do not leap when hooked and are not formally regarded as "game" fish. But they are "as strong...
...Guide Bill Hatch, credit for inventing the "drop-back" method of hooking sailfish (giving 20 ft. or so of slack after the fish's first tap, before striking...