Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18
DEEP SEA AND
TROUT FISHING
Member of the Los Angeles
Tuna Club.

II landed Il six FOUNDER up on the
| Snake last summer, and he kept me
busy for nearly half an hour" said a
trout angler who was swapping fish
stories with Phil S. O'Mara Friday
evening. And then the man who de-
lights in trout fishing and regaling
his hearers with stories of hard fought
battles with big speckled beauties, set
tied back with an air of confidence
that he had accomplished something
worth mentioning.
well, that's a pretty good catch,
I suppose" said O'Mara. but I am
not so sure as I do not go In much
for trout fishing. But, did you ever
fish for tuna, sword OF Jew fish? d? No?
Well, take a look at that fellow
and O'Mara pointed to n monster
sword fish which hangs above the re-
freShment stand at the Auditorium:
well. l caught him the 2Sth of last
August IL miles out to sea off Catalina
Island, and before landing him wo had
a fight that lasted just n little over
three hours He weighed 1913 pounds.
Catch him with a chaIn2 No. GER
tainly not. 1 caught him on u "a
strand line attached to a 16 ounce
pole
But the real sport is fishing for
tuna" continued Mr. O'Mara as he
exhibited a number of pictures show
ing catches made by various mem
bers Of the Tuna club. 1T is true
that the trout is a game fish, but
the gamest fish that lives is the tuna
II is mighty seldom one Is landed alive
80 per cent of them come up tall
first and dead as a door nail"
Last September Mrs O'Mara broke
the worlds record for women by land
ing a tuna weighing 145 pounds, the
fight lasting ~ minutes. A few days
before that O'Mara caught one weigh
ing 153 pounds after several hours of
hard fighting
ABOUT THE TUNA.
"The tuna" continued O'Mara, never
gives up until death ends the struggle
or rather duel. for II is q duel between
man and fish. The fish is always on the
60 running away all the time and If
you give him the least slack, away
goes Mr Tuna and $S or SO worth of
tackle. The "a strand line VIII stand
a pressure OF about 40 pounds and
when you hook one of these fighting
monsters YOU Will have a constant
pressure on your arm ranging from
forty pounds down. IL is Il great sight
W see tHeIn ledP lnlo inc ar several
feet and then dive down, down as
though going to the bottom of the
sea
There Is really no telling how heavy
these fish get / have seen them
weighting as high as 1.S00 pounds. 1t
may seem peculiar thing, but ii is
fact. that the expert trout fisher
man usually makes a good deep sea
fisherman, as they have the knack and
touch necessary to plaV with the tuna
O" other fighters of the sea
There Is just as much individuality
about these fish as there is about men.
You no doubt know of cases where n
little fellow has given a big mau a
thorough trouncing. Sometimes YOU
will hook 100 OF so pound tuna who
will keep you busy for six OF seven
hours Then you may hook one weigh
ing twice or three times as much and
land him with less trouble. My record
catch for Jewish was last summer
when l landed one weighing 240 pounds
i'm four hours and 81 minutes. The Tuna
club. of which ! am a member. proc
ably does not have a membership OF
over 100 1t is exclusive by reason of
the fact that to become eligible the
candidate has to land tuna. with the
regulation tackle, weighing 100 pounds
or more. and when he does this he gets
his blue button. There Is w. r de
Potter q wealthy man OF Los Angeles
for instance. He spent more than $15.-
900 trying to win his button and only
accomplished It recently, We called
him Hard Luck Tom Then there Is
l.. G.. Conn who had a long hard struG-
gle, or series OF struggles. before ho
was successful. When he finally land
ed tuna that entitled him to blue
button. 1t was after a fight lasting over
six hours, and when Conn got back