CHILE 



drink the native wines which are excellent, and enjoy a good 

 rest after a hard day's fishing. 



It was due to the owners of this fine hotel— the Consorcio 

 Hotelero de Chile— that salt-water fishing was restored to 

 this region after the war and it was the management which, 

 on my advice, again made boats available. The Grace Line 

 fishing boats had been taken over by the government during 

 the war as they had been in Peru, and it was necessary to get 

 the entire apparatus of sport angling reorganized. 



I was able to accomplish this on two visits made in 1949 

 and 1950 respectively. Nothing has ever pleased me more 

 than to see the catches that were made as soon as facilities 

 again were provided. The main reason for the switch to 

 Iquique was, of course, the existence of excellent hotel ac- 

 commodations, the good harbor and the flourishing com- 

 mercial fishing. This lively city is a hundred miles north of 

 Tocopilla and commercial fishermen from that port con- 

 stantly harpoon fish off Iquique. 



Tuker originally lived there before he moved to Toco- 

 pilla, and he caught many fish there, as did Mike Lerner 

 when he was down in 1 940. While there are big fish all along 

 the coast, this is the best spot for them. 



Tocopilla lies 125 miles from Antofagasta by automobile 

 road and Iquique is reached by a 200-mile flight of a little 

 over an hour in the DC- 3 planes of the fine Chilean Air 

 Line— called Linea Aereo Nacional. It employs excellent 

 pilots and other personnel and the planes are maintained at 

 the peak of efficiency throughout the year. It is possible 

 to leave Miami via Pan American Grace Airways at eight p.m. 

 Wednesdays and Thursdays. After an excellent dinner and a 



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