FISHING THE PACIFIC 



1 5th, and in eighteen days he had nine strikes and was to boat 

 eight black mariin which weighed 878, 746, 911, 900, 755, 

 630, 532 and 1560 pounds. 



Glassell to date has taken seven black mariin weighing over 

 900 pounds and three over 1000— an enviable record for 

 any species. In all he has boated seventeen black mariin— 

 fifteen off Cabo Blanco, two off New Zealand. He is indeed 

 the black-marlin master of the world and has probably set a 

 record for this species that may never be equaled. It takes 

 guts and patience to go out day after day for any variety of 

 fish and Glassell does not miss when he gets the chance. 



Cabo Blanco has nothing further to report at this writing 

 except a 62 2 -pound swordfish caught by the author and a 

 1045-pound black mariin by B. W. Griffitts. It seems to 

 me that the foregoing constitutes a sensational record, and 

 imagine what it might have been if the nine boats of New 

 Zealand or the 20-odd boats that today fish at Bimini and Cat 

 Cay had been working those waters. 



PERU 

 HISTORY 



The early development of Cabo Blanco is well worth a 

 glance. In 1935 Thomas G. Stokes, a Canadian now retired 

 and living at Vancouver Island, was in business in Lima, 

 Peru, and resided there. He got hold of an old boat, put a 

 Diesel engine in her and ran her up to Cabo Blanco to try the 

 waters with rod and reel. A fine fresh- water fisherman and all- 

 round sportsman, Stokes had heard fabulous tales of the big 

 fish the commercials had been taking, principally mariin. He 



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