Big Game at Sea - Couverture rigide

Holder, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1564161838 ISBN 13 : 9781564161833

Editeur : Derrydale Press, 2000

Synopsis

The Outing Publishing Company first published this splendid book in 1908. As such, it hails from an exciting period of discovery in blue water sport fishing. This era saw the emergence of new target species such as the yellow-fin tuna in the Pacific. Holder was an early advocate of the notion of using lighter tackle on large fish. From the pursuit of the 'devil rays' off the Carolina coast to shar

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

These stories are mainly the authors experiences with big game at sea in many waters. Fifty years ago graining the big ray or devil-fish was the sport of sports along the Carolinas, and it is being revived by men who like a dash of spice with their pastimes. The big ray is now taken nearly every season on the gulf coast of Florida, and at A ransas Pass, where an extraordinary contest took place in 1906: a ray swimming off with fourteen boats before it was killed. Yet the Giant Ray Club, suggested last year, to be composed of men who have taken the huge fish, produced less than a dozen men who had accomplished the feat, though doubtless a more extended canvass would develop others. The various rod catches herein described illustrate the work accomplished by the Tuna and other clubs for a higher standard of sport, as on the Pacific slope. At Santa Catalina especially, game fishes up to one hundred pounds are now taken with what is known as a number nine-thread line; the tip of the rod not less than five feet long, and weighing not over six ounces, while the members of the Tuna Club have for years takim all their great record fishes on twenty-one-thread lines; the idea being to give all large fishes the advantage and reduce the catch to the limit of actual size.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Derrydale Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1564161838
• ISBN 13: 9781564161833
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432