Nov. 2, 1912 
551 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Warm, Stout Cloth 
for Rugged Wear 
]TOR strenuous life in theopen, 
*■ whether it be hunting in the 
deep North woods or winter 
sports at home, you need a suit 
of FORESTRY CLOTH, 
(Shade 65). 
Pure wool and closely woven, 
it defies cold and weather. Its 
firm surface and honest weave 
withstand hard wear. 
FORESTRY CLOth 
stamped like this on the back 
is made in all weights from &}4 to 22 ounces, 
which is the heaviest anyone would care to wear. 
It is beautiful gray-green in color. 
Forestry Cloth is use 1 for women’s garments as 
well as men’s. It has also been adopted by the 
U. S. Government for the Forestry Service. 
Another specially made fabric for sporting wear is 
OL1VAUTO CLOTH, a fashionable olive brown serge 
for riding, motoring and golfing suits and other outdoor pur¬ 
poses. 
Samples of FORESTRY CLOTH and OL1VAUTO CLOTH sent 
upon request. If you are unable to procure these fabrics from your tailor, we 
will see that you are supplied upon receipt of price, through regular channels, 
as we do not sell at retail. When ordering specify fabric and number of yards 
desired. Forestry Cloth, $2.75 for medium weight; Olivauto Cloth, $3.50. 
(3 Yt yds. to a man’s suit.) 
AmericanWoolenCompiy 
WmMWood, President. 
Selling Agency: American Woolen Company of New York 
American Woolen Bldg., 18th to 19th St. 
on 4th Ave., New York 
SWORD FISHING EXTRAORDINARY. 
The San Francisco Bulletin of Oct. 5 has 
the following account: 
For about fifteen years past the Catalina 
Island waters have been the resort of the cham¬ 
pion big game fish anglers of the world. Eight- 
foot swordfish, the swash buckler of the ocean; 
mighty leaping tunas, giant black sea bass and 
smaller but none the less game fighting va¬ 
rieties have tested the skill and endurance of 
expert anglers from all ports of the United 
States, from England, the Continent, and one 
rod enthusiast from far-away Nairobi, in Mid- 
Africa. 
Some of these deep-water knights of the 
rod have made numerous annual visits and ex¬ 
pended large sums of money in the endeavor 
to land a big fish and win a Tuna Club trophy 
or button. 
Various records have been achieved for ang¬ 
ling prowess by sportsmen of the Coast, the 
East and abroad, but it remained for a San 
Francisco angler. Colonel J. W. Dorsey, to 
reach the apex of deep-water fame in making a 
world’s record catch of swordfish with a rod 
and line, tackle of the regulation Tuna Club 
requirements—a twenty-four strong cuttyhunk 
line and a six-foot eleven-ounce rod tip, with 
a fiyingfish baited tuna hook. 
In a week’s fishing with W. B. Sharpe 
twelve of these big fish were taken. Colonel 
Dorsey landed eight, the individual world's 
record catch of swordfish, and also the added 
record of having caught the five largest of this 
species ever taken by one angler. His largest 
fish scaled 249 pounds. Mr. Sharpe caught four, 
a 260-pound fish, the heaviest of the take, being 
landed by'him. Four of the fish weighed over 
250 pounds each. 
The club swordfish season closed Sept. 30 
with a tally of ninety-six swordfish for this 
year. Each one of the dozen fish had affixed 
to its gills one or two remorras, a parasite fish 
that retains its position by means of suckers. 
The Catalina swordfish is described as 
long and slender in body, rarely running over 
300 pounds, the average weight being 150 
pounds, making the fish available as a rod and 
reel consideration. It is one of the most beau¬ 
tiful fishes of the ocean waters, garbed in 
a purple coat of extraordinary brilliancy, with 
broad, dark lateral stripes on its back and sides. 
Its sharp sword is much shorter than that 
of its larger cousin, the common eastern sword¬ 
fish, also found in our coast waters. The 
weapon is more of a poniard than a sword; in 
fact, the fish has virtually two, as the lower 
jaw is also pointed, sharp and dangerous. A 
large black eye, silver belly and royal purple 
back; a wide, crescent-shapped tail; long, 
slender pectorals and tail, spiny dorsal fin, 
which rests in a sheath alone its back, is the 
make-up of as debonair a marine lanzknecht as 
ever swam the seas. 
The swordfish preys on fishes of all kinds, 
dashing into schools of mackerel or other small 
fry, slashing and cutting them up, then gorg¬ 
ing on the pieces, for they are comparatively 
small-mouthed. Flere is where the remorra 
fish comes in for free lunch. 
The swordfish is very pugnacious, some 
very extraordinary battles having been wit¬ 
nessed between these fishes or in combat with 
other marine warriors. Data relating to the 
vicious nature of swordfishes have been com¬ 
piled, showing a list of boats and ships that 
have been damaged, rammed or even sunk by 
them, including injuries inflicted upon human 
beings. 
The first fish caught towed the trolling 
launch ten miles to sea, turning the big boat 
around as if it had been a skiff. The longest 
fight was three hours and forty-five minutes; 
the average time for gaffing the fishes was one 
hour. 
One fish ran out nearly 1,000 feet of line, 
another one, supposed to be 200 feet astern, 
broke water 100 feet ahead and in making the 
turn ran through the line loop and made a knot. 
Another one. in fighting, turned, and the heavy 
wire leader cut him almost to the backbone. 
This fish put up the toughest fight of the bunch. 
In fishing for these fish the line is let out 
150 or 200 feet; the boat will travel from four 
and one-half to six miles an hour. The sword¬ 
fish, like the tarpon, has a very hard mouth. 
When the fiyingfish baited hook is struck the 
angler gives out line, giving the fish a chance 
to take the bait. When the “butt” is given and 
the fish hooked, it generally goes up into the 
air in a wild, clumsy leap, falling back on its 
side in a crash—entirely different gymnastics 
from that of a tarpon or a tuna. 
If well hooked, the fight is on, and the sword¬ 
fish will make a run calculated to give any 
man’s nerves a test. A big one has been known 
to slip away with 600 feet of line, to the dis¬ 
comfiture of the angler. The average fish can 
be stopped before this bad luck happens, and 
then it is that the swordfish of this sea will 
demonstrate that he is the tiger king of all 
game fishes so far as spectacular play is con¬ 
cerned—which is saying much, having the tar¬ 
pon in view. 
A live, healthy tarpon will jump ten or 
twelves times. One of Colonel Dorsey’s fish 
jumped fifty times, another one caught turned 
the trick forty-nine times. Many of these 
jumps were fifteen feet out of the water. Three 
fish hooked broke the line and got away. 
In its dying throes the swordfish, like the 
dolphin, shows a transition of colors, from the 
most gorgeous rainbow hues to finally dull 
gray. Even the dark stripes gradually fade 
away, and the silver fins become translucent. 
The two largest swordfish taken off Cata¬ 
lina prior to the above catch weighed 392 and 
339 pounds. The big catch enabled Colonel 
Dorsey’s boatman. Captain Darrickson, to hold 
a tie for high-hook boat for the season on 
swordfish. 
