ILLUSTRATIONS 



Joe Peeler, one of United States^ leading anglers. 



Alfred Glassell backing ijito the sea as he fights a marlin. 



Maurice Meyer, Jr., Dr. John Davis, Mrs. Farrington and the author 

 about to board a plane in Miami. 



Showing what a 622-pound sivordfish can do to a ^9-thread double 

 line. 



Another view of the line. 



Tom Bates and his world'' s record marlin. 



The author and Roberto Moidlett stand with a fine marlin. 



The Pescador Dos, Petrel and Miss Texas. 



Alfred Glassell stands with the bills of the eight black marlins he 

 caught in eighteen days of fishing. 



Alfred Glassell with the largest fish ever taken on rod and reel. 



Mrs. John Mayining with a fine striped marlin. 



Mrs. Don Alliso?i with a sailfish she caught off Acapulco. 



Mrs. John Manning with the largest marlin ever caught by a woman 

 off Catalina. 



A typical live-bait boat used in fishing in California waters. 



Alfred Glassell with a marlin that took two baits at the same time. 



Frances Arlidge and the author boating a striped marlin. 



The Bird Rock at Bay of Islands. 



Otehei Bay Fishing Lodge at Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



The Rosemary stopping in Bay of Islands. 



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The author with the striped marlin and mako he caught in one 

 morning's fishi?ig. 



Mrs. S. Kip Farrington, Jr., with the largest striped marlin caught 

 by a woman in 1949. 



Michael Lerner with the two marlins he took on a double strike. 



Mrs. Farrington and Winnie Gordon. 



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