PAGE TWO. • ........ THE CATALINA
"UNCLE JOHN" FIGHTS
TUNA FOR NINE HOURS
(Continued from Page 1, Column 4)
the day. And a Dr. Day (home ad-
dress not given) grabbed off a kinder-
garten fish of 26 pounds with the in-
scrutable Sam Goulding. Mr. Fleish-
man (without whose products bread
would be ain't) fshing from his Haida
Papoose, also htmg on the outskirts of
tuna school children, and snapped up
two little chaps, of 25 and 27 pounds.
On the 9th, Parker Pence grinned
his familiar grin as he came in at
evening with a fish of 109 po.unds, ta-
"kenb~" a gentleman who gave his
name as Bill Yule--nothin' more!
The 10th was a blank day! Very
high winds and heavy seas.
On the llth the Producer of Yeast
ambled off and got into himself a jew-
fish of 272- pounds! (En passant :
These phlegmatic ~ieces of fish flesh
have about as much sport in them as
would have a slightly-animate piano).
"Yirruny Yump," with the Terrific R.
Bandini twirling the hellum, negotiated
a splendid fish of pounds. Ed-
mundson found his angler, a Dr. Caps,
a small one of 48 pounds.
On the 12th, the Hen. Jump annexed
the 103 pound tuna, on light tackle,
And lo! the estimable president of the
Tuna Club, R. I~ Thomas, did, by gosh,
get a tuna. He was below the century
mark, however, 94~ pounds.
Mr. A. C. Brode, of the Ancient and
Honorable Tuna Club, is one of these
largely-builded gentlemen whose hearts
are "as big as all out-of-doors," and
whose one thought is to make it nice
for t'other fellow! ("Ste~e" Brode is
the chief muck-a-neck of the I, os An-
geles Soap Company.) So ........ the Big
hearted Steve permitted his guest, Mr.
J. A. Forthman of I,os Angeles to kill
the first tuna. The pair were fishing
with Silent Sam (Goulding), and the
Forthman fish weighed 107~ pounds.
The 13th! I,ucky day for some, but
most damnably unfortunate for others "
as will be shown! On this day James
Jump broke all light tackle records,
with a fish of 113~/2 pounds, Mr. Wil-
lard Webb, fishing with that Wizard
Eaton, just hit the century mark. The
Causer-of-bread-to-rise, His Excellen-
cy, Fleishman, strode bravely into the
limelight of fishery with two tuna, 100
and 113 pounds. A. C. Brode, having
generously permitted his fishin' pal,
Mr. Forthman, to take the first ttma,
proceeded to show Mr. F. how to "do
it," and neatly- dispatched a tuna of
I10 pounds. Hurray, Steve.
C. Alma Baker (the gentleman from
India) did not score in the passed
week until this day, when he utterly
discomfited a tuna of 110 pounds.
And Mr. Walter Kays of Los Angeles,
fishing from the cruiser Ding, with
Sunshine Harry Warner overseeing
the job, got a comfy fish of 115
pounds. They had to use a row boat
to finish the four hour job. The Pap-
rica Polly is a suah-'nough hot stuff
monaker for a boat! One would ex-
pect at least a century fish caugbt
from a vessel of that name! But the
best that Mr. H. Willey, its owner, of
Los Angeles, could do on this date
were two leetle wans--45 and 55 lbs.
And now we come to the saddest
fish yarn ever spun:
For weeks "Uncle John" I)aggett has
been promising to come over and take
a "whirl" at a tuna with me on the
~,Iabel F. On the 13th we sailed forth
over a lovely, simmering sea, with just
a nice kite wind and conditions per-
feet! No luck in the morning. We
saw Hen. Jump bring his record fish
to gaff, and so happy was the Hen.
Yimmie J~ that he signaled to us to
come alongside. We did. And some-
thing glistened in the sunlight that
looked like a record breaker, that it
was, our two crafts separated--each
to take up its own fishing.
"Listen, tuna! this is KHJ, the
Times, Los Angeles, California, talking.
Lay hold of that flyingfish, will you!"
so spoke "Uncle John" Daggett, and
the words had hardly been spoken
when there was a terrific splash, the
rod bent nearly double, and "Jawn"
Daggett's tuna struggle had begun.
Kindly note the time, 2:20 of a hot af-
ternoon.
For the first two hours the fish
headed for San Diego. There was the
usual, and nasty, afternoon sea lift-
ing, and we three, Uncle John, the
Mabel F. and I, bobbed and swayed
and swung, Daggett fighting hard,
every inch of the way, but gaining
little on the fish. It is permissible to
say that I saw that tuna when he
struck, and to say that, in nay opinion
my record fish of 172 pounds, taken on
June Ist of this year, would have been
a good bait for Daggett's fish. "How
long have I had him?" queried Dag-
gett. "Two hours and twelve minu-
tes," I replied. This brought the hour
to 4:40, and the sun was lowering fast.
We were some twelve miles from the
Island, and a big sea running. The
fish showed not the least signs of tir-
ing, and I was none too happy in my
mind, for to gaff a big fish, such as
this, from a heavily-rolling craft, en-
tails a great risk. Time passed. And
passed some more. "I can't do a thing
with him !" Daggett muttered. And I
knew that he could not. So, witb th6
giant fish some 250 feet almost straight
down from the Mabel F., I began to
tow that tuna the long twelve miles, or
thereabouts, to the shelter of the Is-
land, and out of the rough water. And
Uncle John hung on grimly as the
sun dropped out of sight, in a blaze of
colors. Strangely enough, when I tow-
ed it, the fish would co~ne along, but
the moment that I eased up, it would
tear off yards from the splendid Coxe
reel, set with a heavy drag, too.
And so, little by little, almost yard
by yard, indeed, did John Daggett
hang on with an ahnost inhuman cour-
age, while I worked the Mabel F. in
shore.
Sometimes Daggett would whisper:
"Please, give me some rest." And I'd
let my little ship roll and tumble
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Accompanied by a party of friends,
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palatial schooner yacht Goodwill left
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months cruise to the Hawaiian Islands.
Mrs. Spalding, it was stated, will try
to land one of the big swordfish if
any of this variety of fish can be per-
suaded to take an angling bait. The
swordfish of the Hawaiian Islands
are usually caught in the commercial
fishermen's nets and, as far as is
known, no attempt had yet been made
to fight one of these big fish with a
twenty-four-thread line.
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