SWORDFISH’S FIGHT
FOUR-HOUR STRUGGLE ANGLER’S STEEL ROD SNAPPED WHANGAROA, Jan. 4. After a four-hour fight, during which the launch was charged by the infuriated swordfish, a 7961 b. black marlin was landed on the deep-sea grounds off the Whangaroa Harbour by Mr. Mack Tindale, of Whangaroa. to-day. Not only is the fish the first to be caught this season, but it is also the heaviest secured since 1938. Mr. Tindale was fishing in tne deep water between the Whangaroa Heads and the Cavelli Islands. The swordiisn rose to take the bait at 10.30 a.m., and a magnificent battle, in which the marlin broached many times, followed. In its struggle for freedom, it charged the 35ft. launch, leaping high from the water and shattering one ol the cabin windows with a furious thrus. of its tail. Shortly after two o’clock the fight was nearing its end when the steel rod used by the angler snapped in two. Only prompt work by the boatman. Mr. Miles Anderson, in snatching the trace enabled the fish lo be brought lo the gaff 15 minutes laier.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 5, 6 January 1940, Page 3
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