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man who wants to fish around these islands will not catch 

 anything like the amount of fish he will by fishing the 

 Hawaiian group. If he wants a silver marlin he better get it 

 there, and his Allison tuna as well. 



Canton has some fishing as do the Society Islands. The 

 waters of Eniwetok, Wake and Midway are alive with every 

 species of reef fish and some varieties of the mackerel family. 

 There is fishing but it's not the game fishing that people 

 usually expect when they travel that far. 



As for Tahiti, I have no desire whatsoever to try it. I 

 believe you would have to wait much too long to see any big 

 fish and again I think all the fish there are silver marlin sup- 

 plemented by an occasional striped marlin. Under certain 

 conditions, no doubt, you would have a crack at a big marlin, 

 but I believe most of the water would be very rough. 



Getting back closer to the South American coast, the 

 Galapagos have wonderful fishing, although there is trouble 

 with sharks and, because of the birds, trouble even keeping 

 the baits in the water. Nevertheless, the finest and biggest of 

 all sailfish can be found off these islands. 



The Cocos Islands, along the coast of Costa Rica, is another 

 group where the sailfishing is good, but again, with Chile and 

 Peru as they are, I feel strongly that there is no need to try 

 any of these islands. I was fortunate to have had the honor 

 of going out with the officers and enhsted men and seeing 

 how much they love angling and what lengths they would go 

 to in attempting to catch fish. In fact when it was put to a 

 vote by the armed forces in the western Pacific as to what 

 kind of entertainment they wanted, 60 per cent or better 

 voted for moving pictures of fishing and shooting. This was 



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