FISHING THE PACIFIC 



who has taken half a dozen, and Mrs. Farrington with seven. 

 No other woman has caught more than two. Lerner, Joe Gale 

 and I are the only men who have caught swordfish in both 

 oceans and each of us has caught them at three different 

 places. Lerner, in fact, has taken them in more than three- 

 having been successful in several spots off Nova Scotia, as 

 well as at Iquique and Tocopilla. Taking all my fishing into 

 consideration I still regard the two swordfish I took in one 

 day my biggest achievement. 



The latest man to pull this trick was Alfred Glassell in 

 Peru and, incidentally, he has taken ten broadbill swordfish 

 and it won't be long before he exceeds that number because 

 he visits Chile every year. Texas had a great year in 1953 

 with two of her sons— Glassell and Hogan— confounding the 

 fishing and golfing worlds respectively. Houston and Dallas 

 certainly rival one another more than ever with one boasting 

 Hogan and the other Glassell as residents. 



Chile has a ten-month season for striped marlin and an 

 eight- to ten-month one for swordfish— but remember— off 

 Peru, Chile and Ecuador you cannot always take fish at the 

 exact times they were caught the preceding year. The trou- 

 ble is that you may not always find them. That is the risk 

 you have to run even at these fantastically wonderful 

 places. 



Striped marlin are picked up in January and February and 

 begin to come in pretty strong off Iquique in March. Sword- 

 fish have been taken in February and are usually caught in 

 March and April— the latter an excellent month. May, June, 

 July, August, September and October are very good. Novem- 

 ber and December are the only two months that salt-water 



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