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BIG GAME FISHING animal and vegetable, and it is on

COL. MACPHERSON'S ADDRESS TO ROTARY

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they have of scratching an early date,

them Hon. Mr. S. W. Ta'o presided, selves is jumping into the waves and the following new members of ships-they cannot rub them-nofety and efflency.

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Guests present included Ro- Larian J. M. Clinliot, of Canton, and Rotarian D. C. Howland, of Calgary, Canada, who is Rotary Secretary for Eastern Asin.

Lieut. Col. Macpherson said.-larger game. I would like to say how much I appreciate the privilege of being allowed to talk to you to-day on a Rubject like this. I feel it fa a great honour and I will say that I do admire your courage in ask Ing a fisherman to talk to you (laughter), and especially a Scots

one.

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The funny part about all this really a that it was not until after the War that we have been able to devolop the technique of big game fishing. When I Asbed off the coast of South California and the delightful Bahamas, our gear compared with that of to-day was childish.

Hero Col. Macpherson describ- There is one thing a fisherman

of Major has to be careful about, and thated the reel invention is not to touch on weights. May Pomeroy, who used a brake similar I point out that King David issued to that in a Ford car inside the one of the most profound warn-reel. That, he said, was the first: ings against all fishermen, for it is real advance made. written in the 62nd. Panim, "The

It then became necessary, he deceitful continued, to strengthen up, the

children of men aro (Laughter). lines. We fished in the early days

upon the weights."

So I will spare your feelings with a line with a breaking strain and taboo any reference to of 30 pounds, and 16 ounce rods, weights, and will make my appeal and the result was that we simply

couldn't hold the fish. to all honest fishermen.

Hunter and Hunted.

earlier

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First Tunny Caught, In 1922 a tunny appeared off the In the wide expabses of the British const at Scarborough. 1 romantic ocean to-day we find two could hardly believe it was things going on continually-one thing, my idea being that they but had not lot of fish are always being chased were always there and others are the chasers. It is been observed before. Their ob really very much like the human ject was get in close and get at life. So fish, you will find, are the herrings when they were nett- divided into two brond kinds, the fed. This species was identifed n dermersal Ash and the pelagic, the the Thunnus thynnus or Blue fin fish tanny but the Best fish was not latter being the big game such as the tanny. I have tried to landed until 1930 by Mr. Mitchell Since find out from

at Scarborough. necounts Henry when big game fishing was de-1939 the development has been veloped or explored, and subject phenomenal.

My old haunts at California to correction of course I should

cradle of big game fshing. say that there was no serious big were game fishing earlier thun 1886 al- In the sea to-day there are thou- though at this datè Blue Fin sands of fish but they all fall un tunny wero cnught off Santa der two main headings, herrings Catalina, with hand lines. Much and mackerel. The herring tribe interest centres round tunny fish includes tarpons and barracudas. ing and we now catch them in the and the mackerel family include North Sea. The hand ue was turnya and albacore. The width used up to 1900, and In the early of a sparting fish like the tunny years of the

present century is always measured by the depth from the dorsal fin to the ventral George Farnsworth invented EL most ingenious method of catching fin, and the next measurement is tail. The them. Is invention

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The herring has no method of stream lined and did not offer so great improvement in the techni- housing its fins when, in motion much fight, but were nevertheless que of fishing in the development and it is here that the mackerel good big game fish. The record

holds a distinct advantage. It catch was one of 996 pounds. of rods of stronger construction.

Again referring to the tunny, has a greater speed and the tunny, The Cornish Pilchard,

which is of this class, is the Col. Macpherson quid it took several May I digress for a new mo- fastest ish afloat and can attain hours to land a tunny. "The first ments and discuss the many curi-a speed of 66 m.p.h. As soon as thing we have to do is to get out ous things we find in the ocean it is well under way it takes in in a boat with our machinery regarding fish. I carried out its large fins and thus has a per- where the tanny are. They will be some interesting observations on feet stream line. Projecting from on the surface trying to get at the humble fish called the Cornish the side of the tail is a small Sn, horrings that have been caught by pilchard. This fish breeds in the a sort of a flange, and that iden the fishing fleets, Wo then put fjords of Norway, then disappears. has been copied in the tails of the over our line. No breaks are used It re-appears off the coast of Corn-aeroplane find airship. In rail as in the Pomeroy days. The Brat wall, and. nowhere else in the fish the two long pelvic and dorsal rush is at 55 miles an hour and the world. It is caught by the Cor- fins are received into a groov, fisherman sits on a revolving stool nishmen, pressed, the oil is taken but in the tunny the second dor in the bont. If the fisherman is out and transformed into various sal and the anal fin ste rigidly in an ordinary row boat he gets products such a fine oil for de-xed to prevent the body being liente machinery and cod liver oil. twisted round by a sudden spurt. = The pressed fish are sent to Italy. In addition the soll, sword and where they are the staple dish of tunny flsh have additional flanges, the Italiair workmen. Why flah do projecting from the base of the fin those things I do not know, but rays. All these characteristics perhaps in explanation of this make the tunny able to offer such migration I might mention the fight when you try to catch him. planketon theory. The sen is full Referring to marlins, Col. Mac- of minute organisms both pherson said they were not so well

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