PERU 



BLACK MARLIN 



As I have already remarked, we don't like outriggers at 

 Cabo Blanco for the simple reason that, as in the waters off 

 Chile, there is no need for them and you have a much better 

 chance of hooking fish in the wake. 



Glassell has trolled outriggers up and down Peruvian waters 

 for over twelve weeks of fishing time and has had little suc- 

 cess with them. He has also flown a kite as did Doug Osborn 

 in 1940, with no success. Rarely has a striped marlin ever 

 risen to these lures. I believe that that close-in bait is a terrific 

 attraction for black marlin in these waters. At Ecuador or 

 Panama you've got to troll; outriggers are a help— but here I 

 do not beheve they are needed, for the following reasons: 

 I ) the water is very rough, particularly in the winter months, 

 and it is difficult to keep them up. 2) they cause the crew 

 too much trouble— their time can be spent to better advan- 

 tage looking for tails. 3) you have to take one down to bait 

 the fish with in the outrigger. 4) you have much more chance 

 of baiting the fish and watching his action, looking for the 

 pause on the reels, etc., baiting out of the chair. 6) you can 

 manipulate the reel and race the line in much better if the 

 bait is not in the outrigger. 



Glassell and Red Stuart admit that there is nothing they 

 can do with the fish that do not strike with the outrigger 

 that cannot be done with the bait in the wake. The only pos- 

 sible thing is to let the bait way out— three to four hundred 

 feet— and then race it in, and I believe that Glassell has gotten 

 a strike on one or two occasions by doing this. Blind strikes 



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