Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naked Sea.The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
...Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...
...clipper races in, the chum begins to fly. The high-booted fishermen stand precariously in shallow metal scuppers that hang like balconies over the water, and they wield stout poles from which dangle a short line and a large bare hook. The tuna flash up to take the chum, and many get a hook instead. In hook, out fish, in hook, out fish-the work falls quickly into a pounding rhythm that maddens the blood like drums. The deck-holes are filling fast with 20-pounders that flail like thunder as the blood-mist steams above their thousand throes...
...ancients of the tribe come hurtling up to take the bait. The men in the scuppers see them coming and join forces for the battle-three poles now are roped to the same hook, and still the big backs bow and the heavy arms knot as 300-lb. tuna fly into the back troughs with each heave...