BLACK MARLIN HEADED NORTH OFF CABO BLANCO WITH DORSAL FIN DOWN 



2. pm 



THIS BOOK is the sixteenth I have written, and of all 

 the chapters in these volumes this is the most difficult 

 and at the same time the most exciting for me to write. By no 

 stretch of the imagination could I get down on paper all the 

 feelings that I have which would do justice to the grounds off 

 Cabo Blanco, Peru, which is a salt-water fishing place every 

 month in the year— the only one where you can fish twelve 

 months and take fish; not only the largest fish in the world, 

 but the greatest number of species. 



Stop for a second and try to visualize what has happened 

 off Cabo Blanco, and I can tell you that if the game of golf 

 had five Bobby Joneses and five Ben Hogans playing today, 

 that would be its equal. If the U.S. Polo Association had ten 

 ten-goal players ready to mount and ride they would have its 

 equal. If tennis had Tilden, Johnston, Budge and Kramer 



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