FISHING THE PACIFIC 



fishing in the world, although it has to be awfully good to be 

 better than that found off Peru. 



Anyone wishing to fish there should write Emilio Estrada 

 in Guayaquil and arrange to use his boats. It is worth the trip 

 just to meet him. 



Another sterling Ecuadorian is Louis Cordevez, who is 

 much interested in fishing and lives in Quito. Seiior Cordevez 

 is former president of the Guayaquil and Quito Railroad, 

 over which a journey is a must in this wonderful country. 

 There is only one switchback and the line climbs up through 

 the Cordierra and goes round and round the beautiful moun- 

 tain El Chimborazo before emerging on the broad plain and 

 fertile valley which it traverses en route to Quito. 



Personally I have no desire to fish the Galapagos Islands. 

 On occasion a big marlin has been raised out there but I have 

 been told the birds are so bad it is difficult to keep baits in 

 the water. There are also many sharks. However, there is no 

 question in my mind that the best Pacific sailfishing is to be 

 had there and almost all the record fish have been taken from 

 the waters surrounding the islands which belong to Ecuador. 



It's about a two-hour run by automobile to Salinas, which 

 can also be reached by railroad from Guayaquil. The latter 

 is an easy eight-and-one-half-hour flight from Miami by Pan 

 American Grace Airways. 



ROOSTERFISH 



This magnificent fish should be described in the chapter 

 on Ecuador because there they have the world's finest roos- 

 terfishing and the largest of the species. As I have already 

 stated in the Peruvian chapter, at Cabo Blanco they are found 



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