SWORDFISHING IN THE PACIFIC 



Mr. Boschen thinks they are the greatest 

 fish that swim. They certainly are the most 

 difficult to kill for they have a strength and 

 vitality that are beyond belief. They fight 

 as a heavyweight fighter boxes, for their 

 every move is deliberate and well thought 

 out. The marlin fights quickly and is all 

 over the place; not so the swordfish. He 

 moves as a rule slowly but with great 

 strength and deliberation, yet he is known 

 to be the fastest swimmer of the seas. Now 

 and then, it is said, a crazy fish is hooked 

 and acts quite differently. 



The swordfish do not begin to fight until 

 after the first or second hour when they seem 

 to wake up, and a fish has been known to 

 fight for an hour after he had the gaff in him 

 and before he could be securely roped. Once 

 you have a rope around the fish's tail he is 

 safely captured but not until then. 



There were seven swordfish brought in 

 during the eighteen days that I was at 

 Avalon and four of them had been foul- 



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