Word: sailfishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class with tiger and elephant hunting for thrill and danger. Largest game fish ever caught with rod & reel was Zane Grey's 1,040-lb. marlin. But the mako is the only shark which will take fast-moving bait, and at leaping, it is unsurpassed. Tarpon and sailfish also leap clear of the water, but not so high. And like those of tuna and marlin which thresh on the surface, their bodies, gills, fins and tails quiver in the air. The mako soars up stiff as a poker. For a moment it hangs motionless...
...Delano Roosevelt takes the oath, Citizen Hoover will be whisked to Manhattan by special train. There at 6 p. m. he will board the Panama Pacific Liner Pennsylvania, held seven hours for his convenience, and sail to Panama where he will stop for a week to try for giant sailfish before continuing to California on a Dollar Liner. With him will travel his son Allan, Citizens Arthur Mastick Hyde and Ray Lyman Wilbur, possibly Citizen Ogden Livingston Mills...
...Orca, President Hoover's luck changed. His first day's catch: three sails (one 7 ft., 8 in.) and a dolphin. The second day he got two more "sails," one of which was barely an inch too short to win him the "diamond button" awarded by the Sailfish Club of Florida for eight-footers...
Lawrence Richey, President Hoover's detective-secretary, flew to Panama, caught two 10-ft. sailfish in two days...
...club's prize mounted sailfish caught by Author Zane Grey in 1918, weighed...