FISHING THE PACIFIC 



study. Yes, this expedition, known as YASA— Yale South 

 American— was really a good one, and no one deserves more 

 credit than Wendell Anderson for his work and effort in get- 

 ting it up and leading it. He did not have much time for fish- 

 ing. If you don't think it's a big job to take four boats all the 

 way from New England, New York and Florida to the west 

 coast of South America, just try it some time. 



Yale has graduated some wonderful fishermen— as well as 

 great hockey, baseball and football players. If I had to list 

 the greatest, I would like to take Tony Hulman, All- Ameri- 

 can end on the finest football team that Yale ever had— Bill 

 Mallory's team in 1923. As we have already stated in this 

 book, Hulman took three black marlin weighing 9 1 1 pounds, 

 837 pounds and 726 pounds in four days off Cabo Blanco. 

 He is a member there. Captain of the United States Tuna 

 Team, he was on the squad for five years, was on winners for 

 two years, and on second-place teams two years. He is as 

 good a competitive fisherman as he was a football player, 

 crack hurdler, and quarter-miler. He's taken big tuna up and 

 down the Atlantic coast, blue marlin at Bimini, and has many 

 24-thread fish to his credit. He knows the game. 



Tommy Shevlin, along with Michael Lerner, has taken 

 over a hundred blue marlin, the most by far in the Atlantic. 

 He has won the Cat Cay Tuna Tournament, and taken many 

 tuna in the Bahamas. Unfortunately he does not fish as much 

 as he used to or get around like the rest of us. 



Wendell Anderson, Sr., has taken blue marlin in the At- 

 lantic and many fish in Bermuda and the Bahamas, apart from 

 countless others in New Zealand, where he has also done 

 much good and has helped others in keeping the Otehei Bay 



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