V Launches which have returned from tlVTayor Island during tho past few days iTciKH'-t that fJie sport has been better than ever. Tr/elve swordfish were landed by Mr. E. Preston, of Taunnga, fishing from the Dauntless, the heaviest beiugi a 3601 b striped marliu, so far the heaviest landed at Mayor Taland this sea: ion. Tho last fish caught broke the rod | but Mr. Preston succeeded in lam Jing it. One swordfish sounded and dm r.* "its bill into the ocean lied at a dep Mi of 50 fathoms. The angler could not move it with the rod and line, and use i a "traveller" with three sets of hoc I; triangles, let down attached to a sua piper line. Two sets of triangles can iht in the flesh of the swordfish and heli I. With (he aid of the lines,, the fish Was. hoisted to the surface and landed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 2
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