CHILE 



fishing would not be going off Iquique now if it had not been 

 made world famous off Tocopilla, and when you make a 

 switch from a place like Tocopilla, considering the reputa- 

 tion it had, it's like moving a night club like El Morocco to 

 a new address under a new name. Luckily (not that I ever 

 thought that it wouldn't), in a single year Iquique has left 

 Tocopilla far behind. 



RECORDS AND FAMOUS FIRSTS 



The largest fish I have ever personally seen was a broadbill 

 swordfish harpooned off Chile that weighed 1565 pounds not 

 dressed. Lou Marron's fish, taken May 7, 1953, is the rod- 

 and-reel record, weighing 1 1 82 pounds. This fish got wrapped 

 up and was hooked in the dorsal fin and at that it took a 

 hard angler like Marron an hour and fifty-five minutes to 

 catch. It's a lucky thing it got wrapped up because I have 

 been eight hours and fifty minutes with a 316-pounder 

 hooked in the dorsal fin, so I don't envy Lou Marron the job 

 he might have had if he'd had to fight this fish for five or 

 six hours. 



He had Eddie Wall, Michael Lerner's regular guide, with 

 him. Wall has been of infinite assistance to Lerner in the 

 establishment of the Lerner Museum of Natural History 

 Laboratory in Bimini and he learned his swordfishing from 

 the resourceful Mike. It was a wonderful thing for Eddie 

 Wall to be in on that catch for he's a great fellow. After 

 Marron's catch comes Arthur Hall's 937-pound record off 

 Iquique; next we have Tuker's old 860-pounder, my 853- 

 pounder, George Garey's 849- and 842 -pounders, Tuker's 



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