Word: sailfishing
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Lawrence Richey, President Hoover's detective-secretary, flew to Panama, caught two 10-ft. sailfish in two days...
Close behind Mrs. Stone came Dr. Vernon Kellogg with a 65-lb. sailfish. After much razzing by his companions, because he complained sharks decapitated his big catches before he could land them, Justice Stone finally caught a 42-pounder...
...President's fishing had not been extraordinarily successful. His total catch: one sailfish (45 Ibs.). one mackerel, four bonitos, three barracuda. Mrs. Hoover had caught a 38-lb. sailfish, some red snappers...
Honors for the expedition went to the Hoover guests. No. 1 angler was Agnes Harvey Stone, plain-dressing, unrouged intellectual wife of Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the U. S. Supreme Court. Her 66-lb. sailfish, landed after a two-hour battle from dusk to moonrise eight miles out in the Atlantic, set the season's record, won her one of the Long Key fishing club's little gold buttons for a championship.* Washington society, whom the Stones entertain often and well, waited for her own account of the feat. If anyone should impolitely doubt her story...
...club's prize mounted sailfish caught by Author Zane Grey in 1918, weighed...