Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., and the first looo-pomid black marlin to be 

 caught off Peru. Frontispiece 



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Mrs. Don Allison with her ladies^ record sivordfish. 



Lou Marron with his 1182-pound world's record swordfish. Captain 

 Eddie Wall is pictured also. 



The fishing boat Albacora. 



Jack A?jderson with a swordfish caught off Iquique. 



Fred Maly, Otto Kohler a7id Jack Coffey shown with a day's catch. 



Bill Negley with a striped marlin he caught. 



Mrs. Michael Lerner, the first of only two women to catch a broad- 

 bill swordfish in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 



Horace Graham with a 4^8-pound swordfish caught off Chile. 



Federico Weisner's 628-pound swordfish. 



S. Kip Farrington, Jr., becomes the first man to catch a marlin and 

 a swordfish in one day. W. E. S. Tuker stands with him. 



The late Bill Hatch and Michael Lerner. 



Mrs. S. Kip Farrington, Jr., with the only two swordfish ever taken 

 by a woman in one day. 



The author with a 8j^-pound swordfish. 



Pablo Bardin and his four days' catch. 



Francesca LaMonte, world's leading lady fishing authority. 



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