Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . in, it is almost im-possible to obtain bait. The waters seembare of fish of any kind, which must accountfor the short visits of the tuna, for theywill not remain where there is no food. Mr. J. K. L. Ross, who passes his sum-mers at St. Anns Bay, is the pioneer ofthe tuna fishing there. He has had greatsport during the last four seasons, havingbeen fast to more than fifty of these giantfish during that time. He was unsuccess-ful until recently, when, on the twenty-eighth of August, 1911, he succeeded inlanding, after a fight lasti
Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . in, it is almost im-possible to obtain bait. The waters seembare of fish of any kind, which must accountfor the short visits of the tuna, for theywill not remain where there is no food. Mr. J. K. L. Ross, who passes his sum-mers at St. Anns Bay, is the pioneer ofthe tuna fishing there. He has had greatsport during the last four seasons, havingbeen fast to more than fifty of these giantfish during that time. He was unsuccess-ful until recently, when, on the twenty-eighth of August, 1911, he succeeded inlanding, after a fight lasting four hours 118 SPORT ON LAND AND WATER and forty-five minutes, a fish eight feetten inches long, with a girth of six feetthree inches, and weighing 680 poundson the scales at Sydney twenty-four hourslater. It was a wonderful and well-de-served victory after all his trouble andhis never-ending hospitality and kindnessto visiting fishermen. The fish in those waters are of great saw one near at hand which, I think,must have weighed at least 1500 WORLDS RECORD TUNA, 680 POUNDS Captured ivith rod and lirie by J. K. L. Ross at St. Anns Bay, N. S.
Size: 1272px × 1965px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectfishing, booksubjecth
