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restricted membership of men who have 
achieved success in angling by taking 
fish under the most sportsmanlike con¬ 
ditions. The presidency goes to the 
member of the club catching the largest 
tuna during the season, who serves as 
president the following year. The mem¬ 
ber catching the second largest tuna 
serves as vice-president. 
For a long time there was a question 
in the minds of many if the tuna taken 
off -the Atlantic coast were of the same 
species that anglers travel across the 
continent to catch at Avalon, Cal., in 
the Santa Catalina waters. Ichthyolo¬ 
gists, however, have compared the spe¬ 
cies taken both in the Atlantic and 
Pacific waters and declared them iden¬ 
tical. 
The way to catch tuna is to make 
an arrangement with the Seabright 
(N. J.) fishermen, who go out daily 
for bluefish, to hoist an oar when they 
find tuna are feeding in the ‘slick.” 
Thus the angler for tuna makes an 
additional payment to the Seabright 
fishermen to keep grinding out chum, so 
that if after he brings his boat over he 
hooks a tuna and loses it he may come 
back and try his luck on another tuna 
feeding in the “slick” off the Seabright 
men’s boat. 
The other method is the Squan Ridge 
way of trolling with block-tin squids, 
using the largest squids possible. 
WORLD’S-RECORD TUNA 
The world’s-record tuna was taken 
by Captain Laurie D. Mitchell on Sep- 
tembei 5, 1914, at Port Medway, Nova 
Scotia. The fish weighed 710 pounds, 
its length 10 feet 4 inches and its girth 
84 inches. Just before Mr. Mitchell 
started for the World War, I wrote a 
note to him about this tuna and its 
capture and this is his reply, which tells 
the story quite too briefly: 
F°d A split cane two - piece rod 
made by A. Carter & Co., 11 South 
Moulton Street, Bond Street, London, 
W. This rod is not quite as heavy as 
the Conroy rod, but stood the terrific 
strain wonderfully. 
“Reel—A No. 9-10 Universal Special, 
made by Ed. vom Hofe. 
“Line—Bought from Thomas J. Con¬ 
roy, 150 yards of No. 39 thread spliced 
to 75 yards of No. 36. 
“I had just before lost a fish that 
took 300 yards of No. 39 thread right 
off the reel at one rush, and having an 
old line with me I put it on my reel and 
was very fortunate in landing my fish. 
One remarkable fact in the capture 
of this fish was that after its first 
mad rush, in which it took out nearly 
all my line, I reeled in until I reached 
the 75-yard mark and held the fish on 
that length of line, and for the last 
three hours I had less than 20 yards 
out and had the fish in view all that 
time.” 
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sonny?” 
Nobody did; I plugged ’em with 
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