CHILE 



Chile without stopping for a single one and, believe it or not, 

 Lerner has seen fifty-one in a day without being seduced 

 from his quest of broadbill. After you've caught a few of 

 these beautiful creatures you really have no desire to take 

 any more except possibly on 6- or 9-thread line, attention 

 PLEASE: Do not fail to remember that I am talking about 

 striped marlin— not black marlin, blue marlin or silver marlin. 



To show you the kind of catches of striped marlin that can 

 be made on these grounds when an angler is really hot after 

 them, just take a glance at what Dr. Leon Storz, the great 

 American angler from Worcester, accomplished in his first 

 day— March 15, 1941. He left the mole at half past eight, got 

 in the proper water around 1 1 o'clock, and by 2 o'clock had 

 boated six striped marlin, lost two others. After that there was 

 ample time for each of his boat crew to catch a fish. In six 

 days' fishing he boated eighteen striped marlin. I took a 

 couple out for two days in 1941 and the man caught a 359- 

 pound marlin and his wife a 275-pounder. 



In 1940 Mike Lerner caught twenty-five marlin that he 

 stopped for and the number could just as easily have been 

 one hundred and twenty-five. Frequently off Chile the striped 

 marlin are seen tailing in pairs and if you start baiting one 

 on 6-thread line you will be cut off by the mate of the fish. 

 They can do it very easily with 6- and 9-thread line and 

 seem to know where the hindrance is coming from. You can 

 never convince me that they don't know how to cut the line 

 when the hook is in their mate. I had it happen six times with 

 eight fish I hooked in 1941. Keep close to the striped marlin, 

 particularly with the light tackle, and you won't have too 

 much trouble with him. Of course on 6-thread you've got to 



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