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five striped marlin or fifty white marlin. I would not change 

 this opinion even after having caught an 1135-pound black 

 marhn and had plenty of experience with the species. And 

 I would only qualify the statement by saying that I would 

 now want the swordfish to be over 500 pounds to be worth 

 the five black marlin— and I would up the twenty giant blue- 

 fin tuna to forty, the twenty-five striped marlin to a hundred, 

 and the fifty white marlin to two hundred. 



The more you see of these fish the greater the fascination 

 they hold for you, as is the case with black marlin off Peru 

 and New Zealand. I don't feel that anyone ever really knows 

 swordfish— of course he never will know them completely— 

 until he has gone after them in Chilean waters. 



No words of mine could ever do justice to the broadbill 

 swordfish as the greatest sporting game fish of them all. He 

 certainly has more idiosyncrasies and greater guile than any 

 other fish I have ever encountered and is by all odds the 

 most difficult to hook and, next to the black marlin, the most 

 difficult to find. 



Mike Lerner has taken twenty-three of these fish and he 

 says if he ever comes out of retirement and fishes again 

 there's but one thing he'll go after— the swordfish off Chile 

 and Peru. Tuker, who still lives in Tocopilla as well as 

 Vina del Mar, the great watering place of Chile near Val- 

 paraiso, has taken nineteen, and the author is next with a 

 dozen. 



Other big swordfish catches were made by the famed 

 George Garey, who had eleven— three of them over 800 

 pounds— when he retired and left Chile; George Pillsbury 

 of Catalina, who had ten in the old days; George Thomas 



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