NEW ZEALAND 



The day after I left, a man took a 600-pound black marlin 

 and one weighing 300 while fishing from my boat. 



That same year Mrs. Partington took the largest striped 

 marlin for a woman. This fish weighed 342 pounds and, as 

 I recall, the largest taken by a man that season was 380. 



There have been only two or three broadbill swordfish 

 caught in these waters and the only one taken outside of 

 Chile or Peru that weighed over 600 pounds, with one ex- 

 ception. That was the Atlantic record of 601 pounds taken 

 off Nova Scotia by Michael Lerner. 



Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., was out there in 1950 and had 

 photographers with him who shot the exciting scenes for the 

 motion picture Eleven to Three which has been widely 

 shown around the United States and has done much to stimu- 

 late interest in big game fishing. It is a great educational pic- 

 ture embodying the finest mako-shark jumping shots ever 

 filmed. It also features lovely sequences of gannet diving as 

 well as shots of a 630-pound black marlin which Glassell 

 caught jumping. He insists on obtaining his objectives no 

 matter how long it may take and in this case he had to stay 

 on in New Zealand waters for three weeks in order to take 

 this fish. Up to that time he had caught only a single small 

 black marlin. This fish took both baits and he had to decide 

 instantly which one to cut off. Luckily he chose the right 

 one but he was the first man— probably the only one in New 

 Zealand— who had ever cut a Hne and got away with it, par- 

 ticularly when dealing with a black marlin. 



New Zealand boats are all crewed by one man and the 

 black marlin are too big to be taken aboard. Gin poles and 

 block and tackle rigs are not used so all fish are towed in. 



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