Word: sailfish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago, most game-fish anglers favored lines testing at 80 to 130 lbs. of pressure before they would break, heavy, inch-thick rods, and big 9/0 to 12/0 reels almost powerful enough to winch in a whale. But after a fisherman had caught his first dozen sailfish, and heaved enough tuna on the deck to keep the family in sandwiches for years, what sport was there left in the game? What was left was to match the tackle to the fish-and watch his smoke. The 70-lb. white marlin that died like a guppy...
...eight years, only 164 anglers around the world have qualified for the Ten-to-One Club. Notable among them is Florida's Stu Apte, 37, a Pan American pilot and professional fisherman on the side, who qualified with an 82-lb. Pacific sailfish on threadlike 5-lb. test. In Australia, the Sydney Game Fishing Club has just started a Fifteen-to-One Club, and President John S. Quill says: "In the past year, a dozen fishermen would have qualified...
Gone, Overnight. One top sport-fishing hole so far seems safe: Panama's Piñas Bay (TIME, July 10, 1964), where hundreds of marlin and thousands of sailfish were boated last year. Maybe the commercial fishermen were too busy elsewhere. Off Montauk Point, N.Y., where a favorite sport is fishing for sharks, commercial fishermen have practically eliminated the scrappy and tasty porbeagle. The pressure is growing at Maryland's "Jack Spot," the summer home of the tough little (world's record: 161 lbs.) white marlin. Until commercials showed up in the Jack Spot last summer...
...buoys and equipped with radar beacons to spot their location for the boat. Fish hooked on the long lines fight hopelessly against the miles-long cable until they drown or are mutilated by sharks. Off Baja California one day last spring, enraged Mexican sport fishermen counted more than 300 sailfish on the 2,000 hooks of a single long line. The line was only one of five laid by a Japanese boat that fished the area for 14 days. Total estimated catch: 21,000 sailfish...
...Delicacy. By Western standards, sailfish and marlin are practically inedible. Even the Japanese can think of nothing better to do with the coarse oily sailfish than grind it up into fish sausages. But marlin is considered a delicacy in meat-short Japan, where it is served fried or raw-garnished with soy sauce and horseradish to make a dish called sashimi...