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soon proved that what he had heard was no fish tale when 

 he boated a 60 1 -pounder and returned the following year to 

 take another of 712 pounds, and thus convinced the most 

 particular of the angling fraternity that there was another 

 superlative fishing ground ojff the west coast of South 

 America. Cabo Blanco was not fished again until January, 

 1939, when G. P. Ted Seeley of New York, president of the 

 Frederick Snare Corporation, who had been spending some 

 months each year in Lima, went up to Cabo Blanco in a 60- 

 foot motor sailer. He brought with him four of his regular 

 golf companions from Lima— H. S. Hunter, E. Roberts, C. 

 F. Fritz and T. J. Kirkland, now operating vice-president of 

 Pan American Grace Airways. 



His craft was equipped with a heavy Diesel motor and was 

 in no way adapted for big game fishing. Mr. Seeley hired a 

 commercial fisherman to go out with him and fished accord- 

 ing to mood rather than schedule— and didn't expect too 

 much. From a clumsy boat he was with nary a fighting chair, 

 no tackle for hoisting the fish aboard— he was blithely going 

 out for some of the biggest game fish in the world. 



Using a piano stool as a fighting chair, with an unattached 

 Gimbel rod socket between his legs, he took two black 

 marlin of 718 and 704 pounds respectively. Some of the east 

 coast anglers who require the best of chairs and boats should 

 think this one over. In seventeen days of actual fishing, Mr. 

 Seeley reported more than fifty black marhn sighted from 

 January 23 to February 14. Some of them may have been 

 broadbill swordfish. There were only a couple of days when 

 he didn't go out and he lost one that would have gone well 

 over 1000 pounds. At any rate he was there and had a 



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