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Between seasons Colonel Wise once tested, and later compared with a shark's, the pull that a man can exert swimming against rod & reel. His figures for a 6 ft. 3 in. Princeton water poloist harnessed, and for young male Sand sharks of the same weight (200 lb.) hooked in the mouth...
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Colonel Wise got started shark-fishing as a boy off the Virginia Capes, when he threw a weakfish out for a big Hammerhead shark and was towed around for miles in his dory. He learned to chum for the brutes with fresh-killed fish, preferably good oily and bloody ones. He learned how to cure a hooked shark of sulking on the bottom: send a lively crab down the line to pinch his nose...
After years of observation and checking up on shark stories. Colonel Wise testifies that there is no fixed answer to the old question whether sharks will attack men. They mostly will not if they are well fed, not excited, not convinced the man is helpless. They mostly will if given a blood scent or if startled by what they think is an attack on them. And different species, of course, have different appetites. Best rule, thinks Colonel Wise, is not to trust sharks...
...expeditions to Andros Island by Colonel Wise, whose literary style is as unpretentious as his experting, were made perfect by E. M. Schuetz, resident manager in Nassau for National Fisheries Corp., a commercial sharking company, to whom prospective sharkers might well apply. Gleeful was his reply to an angler returning home on the S. S. Munargo with boasts about the big barracuda he had caught. Colonel Wise could truthfully say: "We used them for bait." His biggest catch at Andros was a Great Blue shark that measured 11 ft. 7 in., weighed 954 lb. But far bigger ones, of course...