Word: swordfishing
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...fishermen off Devil's Island, at the entrance to Halifax Harbor, one day last week sighted the sickle-shaped fin of a swordfish speeding shoreward. Surprised to see a swordfish so close to land, they pursued it. Soon they saw the reason. Behind it was a school of sharks. As they watched, the swordfish turned, attacked one of its pursuers. The sharks surrounded it, cutting off its flight. No sooner had the swordfish beaten off one shark than another was upon it. The fishermen counted eight sharks. For 15 minutes unnoticed by the battling fish they watched while...
Fine game for fishermen, the broadbill swordfish frequently runs afoul of sharks. Two years ago Thomas Montgomery Howell, famed Chicago stock & grain operator, was swordfishing (he has caught four broadbills) off Montauk Point, L. I. with his small son and Captain Bill Fagan when he saw a long-drawn battle between a mako shark and a broadbill. Time after time the swordfish aimed its lethal snout at the shark, but each time the shark was too quick, raked the swordfish's hind end until "the sea looked like shredded wheat." As the dying swordfish was being pulled into Capt...
Fishing from a yacht tender off Los Angeles, Julian Eltinge, female impersonator, struck a 190-lb. marlin swordfish, played it for nearly two hours, finally landed it. In the bottom of the boat the swordfish lashed violently, wounded Actor Eltinge in the abdomen, inflicted cuts upon other members of the party. Actor Eltinge was hurried to a hospital for an operation by Dr. Earl C. O'Donnell, one of his companions, who had been cut on the hand by the swordfish. Afterwards Dr. O'Donnell discovered that he had contracted bloodpoisoning...
...since 1916, when there was a real "scare" and loss of human life, have there been so many sharks as this year off the New Jersey and Long Island coasts. And not for several seasons has swordfishing been so successful in the same waters. *Last week, six miles off Sea Bright, N. J., fishermen Harry Munson and George Swenson beheld what few men have seen -a fight to death between a shark and a swordfish. Usually a shark will vanish at sight of its mortal enemy with the sharp-bladed nose, but this shark "about 25 feet long," was intent...
...salt yarns. My Ditty Bag-dedicated to his "loved and loyal wife who sailed for Australia with me a week after our marriage, and who has been a good shipmate during these many years"-has an exciting chapter "Fishy" ending with a quoted instruction for "landing" the biggest possible swordfish aboard a dory in the open ocean: "Fasten his tail over the gunwale to the afterthwart; put his sword over your shoulder; put your big finger in his eyeball; grab him with your other hand near his tail; when she rolls to leeward pull hard as the boat rolls back...