FISHING THE PACIFIC 



installed a fishing chair. In ten days' fishing in which the boat 

 broke down some four or five times, once or twice when 

 actually fighting fish he boated eight striped marlin and two 

 swordfish, one a 687-pounder, the largest ever taken oiT 

 Peru. 



Glassell did most of his fishing out of Mancora and a good 

 portion of it on a bank some thirty-five miles offshore which 

 was teeming with bait. He quit Mancora and Talara for San- 

 tiago, Chile, the day I arrived but left me a message saying that 

 the place looked awfully good to him. When we met again in 

 Santiago we decided that then and there was the place to 

 found a club. 



Enrique Pardo had already told me that he would erect the 

 clubhouse and I said Fd provide a boat, while Glassell said he 

 would furnish another. In the meantime, Pardo and I had 

 gone to the Lobitos officials and sounded them out about 

 letting us use the facilities at their mole and giving us a site on 

 the beach for a clubhouse. This was arranged through C. N. 

 Carroll, who had been in charge in Lima for many years; John 

 Henry, resident manager in Peru, and Leonard Berry, the 

 general manager in London, to all of whom we owe a debt of 

 gratitude. Glassell and I went over to Buenos Aires to shoot 

 with Jamie Llavallol and he eagerly wanted to join and 

 contribute a boat. Thus the Cabo Blanco Club was born. 



On my return to New York I immediately told Joe Gale 

 that he had better join and he took my advice and we also 

 asked Tony Hulman of Terre Haute. Tony, of course, said it 

 sounded Hke the real thing to him and was glad to take 

 Glassell's and my word on the matter. At that point we were 

 not sure how many more members we would need. As the 



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