NEW ZEALAND 



many fish and some of them are now in the institution's head- 

 quarters in New York City. It was in that year that Mike 

 made the fabulous record of catching two black marlin in 

 one day in Australia; two mako sharks and two striped marlin 

 in one day in New Zealand; two blue marlin in one day at 

 Bimini; two tuna in one day at Wedgeport and two broadbill 

 swordfish for the fourth time in his career, having done it 

 twice in Nova Scotia and once in Chile, off Louisburg. 



The Otehei Bay Fishing Camp belongs to Wendell Ander- 

 son of Detroit who backed Hassell in the running of it. With 

 his traditional kindness Wendell has done a great deal for the 

 New Zealanders just as he has made his benign influence felt 

 in other places where he has lived. In 1 948 he led an expedi- 

 tion out there for Yale University's Peabody Museum as he 

 did in Peru in 1953. Like myself, this group did not succeed 

 in catching any black marlin. But others had good luck 

 aplenty. When I was at Otehei, Milton Kent of Sydney took 

 an 8 82 -pound black— the largest that year. Dr. Harold Pettit 

 of Auckland, International Game Fish Association represen- 

 tative for that country, a fine angler who was on the British 

 Team in the International Tuna Cup Match in 1952, has 

 boated two black marlin at the Bay of Islands during his long 

 fishing career. 



Naturally, with the one-man boats you cannot take the 

 fish too rapidly and have to skip many prizes in those waters. 

 I have even known a guide to pull a watch on me, declaring 

 he did not wish to take the fish because it was too fast com- 

 ing to the boat. Black marlin in New Zealand are just as won- 

 derful and beautiful in coloration as they are in Peru, and put 

 up their spectacular three-way type of fight with their grey- 



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