Word: sailfishing
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...President planned to eat and sleep on the Saunterer, to spend his days fishing for sailfish, kingfish, barracuda, perhaps tarpon, from small speedboats. His only contact with the shore would be a courier in a launch. Newsmen, left behind as they always are when the President plays, settled down at Long Key to amuse themselves the best they could, to welcome whatever scraps of information were daily brought in by the courier from the Saunterer...
Aboard the launch the catch weighed 45 pounds, small for a sailfish...
Meanwhile, 40 miles northward, off Miami Harbor, Hoover Assistant Richey was hooking and landing three sailfish; Republican National Chairman Work, two sailfish...
...next day Mr. Hoover caught his second sailfish, five pounds larger than the first...
...Tarpon are Florida's gamiest fish, sailfish next. Tarpon do not run until early March. Sailfish, named from the large dorsal fin, measure six or seven feet, weigh 40 to 70 pounds. Strong, fierce, canny, four out of five get off the hook...