Word: sailfishing
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...Miami, the average fisherman, a landlubber, dashes down to Pier 5 before 8 a.m. He buys a box lunch at the Trade Winds Restaurant (which also cooks the fish he catches), goes goose-bumpy at the thought of hooking a 50-lb. sailfish (which are accommodating enough to bite the year round), hires a boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors...
Frannie Powers, fresh from the Florida sunshine, is expected to try the sprint events tonight. He is reported to have caused much anxiety among lifeguards around Miami because of his long training swims seaward during which he was frequently mistaken for a sailfish by the fishing ernisers which abound in those waters...
Most spectacular of Atlantic game fish are the swordfish family: sailfish, marlin, broadbill. Almost any day in the year a sailfish can be caught in the Gulf Stream off Palm Beach-and frequently anywhere from Palm Beach to Key West where the biggest Atlantic sail ever recorded (119 Ibs.) was caught in 1934. White Marlin (world's record 161 Ibs. ), presumably move up the coast from Miami in the spring, reach New Jersey about the Fourth of July. Blue Marlin are plentiful in the summer (from late June) at Bimini, B. W. I., famed fishing paradise of the Atlantic...
...elegant sportsman with a $100 rod and a $1,000 reel have each an equal chance to win some of the $15,000 in prize money. The No. 1 prize is the Miami Beach Rod & Reel Club's silver statuette awarded to the angler who lands the biggest sailfish...
...first week the largest fish registered was an Allison tuna weighing 138½ Ibs., the biggest sailfish a not spectacular 71½ pounder. But fishermen were hopeful. A world-record white marlin (161 Ibs.) was caught off Miami last spring...