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BIG-EYE TUNA 



Big-eye tuna are marvelous fighters and very beautiful. 

 This is the fish we had been thinking of as the yellowfin, but 

 now we are told it has different livers and that's how it is 

 identified, even though it has a big eye. John Olin tells me 

 that one he lost was one of the toughest tuna he's ever fought. 

 He really slayed them with half a dozen in a week taken in 

 Nova Scotia, all weighing over 600 pounds. He should know. 

 At Cabo Blanco we usually fish one line, sometimes two, deep, 

 at about 40 fathoms. The squid, of course, if you're too close 

 to shore when drifting, are constantly taking your baits and 

 ruining your fishing. It is always necessary to keep the engine 

 running on account of the prevalent current from the north. 

 It is easy to get the ranges here and we usually feel there are no 

 black marlin south of the oil derricks at the south end of the 

 El Alto Field. 



We particularly like to be on the range about four miles 

 offshore with the oil tanks to the south end of El Alto on 

 the south— with the Cabo Blanco mole on the north, the 

 oil derrick on the north end of El Alto on the top, and 

 Cabo Blanco itself on the south or bottom. If you hang 

 out on this range you'll usually do pretty well but, believe 



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