The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-03
CONFESSED DRIVER OF MURDER CAR TESTIFIES

||lf ANCY FISH YARNS inc of FIorida's Choice legendary Catches" Weigh i6 Tons and Can PIayfully | Swish Great Docks Away kfiami Beach, Fla. February 2.-- kecial.) )--Senator Warren c. Haring
 carry back with him to the White
 SC enough fishing yarns to last all
 tks coming spring and summer Next
 Ssr he will be back at the happy
 &ing grounds, where black Caesar. bloody pirate once held sway, to Rllect another seasons supply of
 Nth the wild fishes which make their Inter headquarters in these romantic
 Hters.
 Ehe senator last November thought tarpon fishing at Point Isabel was
 ae sport, but the fighting bouts he
 off Cocolobo bay Monday and Tues
 E with lot of sail fish, barracudas,
 st angling for tarpon is nothing
 Hse than fishing in it's infancy.
 Ehere is an old wreck off the mouth .kCaesar's, where the big fighting fish FK the sea seem to have a rendezvous.
 Twas there that President-elect Hard ty was taken. From the tales that Ee told it would appear that fishemen Nho have never been to this wreck ksver have had any real fishing. The kethod of angling is something like {iis:
 T FAIRLY BIG FISH
 \ First, you cut up good size fish, lay one about three or four feet long, End toss several chunks of him over Hoard These chunks tempt the big jnes and get them in an eating mood ehep. you<bait your hook with another fish, bne about four or five feet long, and cast your line. which can be any Where from a quarter of an inch to half an inch in thickness. It must be re- membered that when you fish in the sea you must be prepared for anything, There IS no telling what you may get on the end of the big hook.
 !. Capt. Charlie Thompson, who chap eroned the President-elect to the fish, ing grounds once caught a monster weighing 32,0o0 pounds. Nobody has ever clsssified the 1s-ton brute, but ex- rerienced hands with rod and reel in these waters like Cart Fisher, who was Mir. Hardings host here, and Jimmie Allison who runs. the aGlarirr1, and len Round of Detroit, who calls all the Iig fish by their first names, declare Inc monster was cross between a Fhale and devil fish.
 \ PLAYFULLYs WRECK DOCK It took IS hours to kill him. Captain Thompson harpooned tho sea animal End something like 157 bullets were Hired into him before he would give up Nhe struggle Once the fisher-folk in- Huced the behemoth into shallow water ear a dock, but he gave swish of his Nail that knocked 40 feet of the said lock away. a bit of playfulness which fonvinced the fishing crew 1t would be Test to deal with the devil in the deep blue sea.
 George Christian, Jr., MT. Hartling's sec Eetary, had one experience which con tinced him that the tall fish yarns one bears in Florida waters are not all moon lhine. Mir. Christian had hooked large inackerel and was reeling him when in
 
 Yea, and snapped half of the struggling Fish away. The next secretary to the President, none the less, reeled in the letter half HERE'S ANOTHER ONE fnhe story is told hereab0uts of one kiembcr of the Cocolobo club who baited tke hook with three-foot fish and lL sght thereon six-foot fish, only to tp le the six-footer swallowed by some Id er mammoth denizen of the deep be- Fef the startled fisherman could protect l N line. Whom the last named mammoth
 baed the six-foot bait and made off kL h the hook, line and sinker, the fisher Iw could only stand and shout: tEH' Run, you scoundrel run. You may NrE you are having fun. but I have
 my moneys worth, too.'
 more experienced fishermen at
 Hobo know when hopeless bite"
 onts them and take turn about a
 1avit and let a fish 60 with the
 @dF hook, thereby saving the rod
 k Senator Harding hooked his first s4s N ish Tuesday before breakfast, he Had a sensation which many fisherman ! Had waited seven years to land, The ssail Fish club at Palm Beach and only tatchers of sail fish are eligible. It is Eupposed to be one of the most expensive | Hub organizations of the south. but Mir Harding became eligible almost without
 struggle.
 HARDING LOSES SHARK tThe sail fish is member of the sword 1 hmily so far as appearances are ccr,- trped for among other things he has A l tarp weapon for a nose. The fish are ss5ns and slender and have fin which 1 lises r to 2A inches above their back [ N haa a length Of possibly three feet.
 Ety use this sail when sxidding along 2 70 top Of tho water. The sail fish is { 44 e tho gamest of the big varieties,E 'snd, when he 1s hooked, leaps from the 1 water and wrigsles in manner which, : qAkes 1t appear he Is standing on his m. s| sIn view of aii the foregoing, 1t is not
 be wondered that Nr Harding, before J Avine Miami Beach, accepted honorary 7 | kesnbefship in the. Cocolobo club and ac- 1 Eopted an invitation to spend his next fhristmas holidays in this locality. IThe large fish caught by the President Nect were turned os7er to taxidermist 1 Tor preservation and mounting: Some of 1 She smaller fry arc to be tagged and i iplaced in Jimmie Allison's aquarium I |here the first personally conducted | scuarium in existence. Ono of the ac- FiDttions Of the aquarium H a deep sen I f1rtlo esttmAted to be . meFo mattsr Vf ! \ thcusand years old. No flnh story ends. as dr1matic1lly n 4 {he c6o about the biggest tetttng aWay.I frhis 1I1h stcry has no exceptipp. eenatSri iisrdmg hooked naAn-eat1nx ehntx I bout F feet long. but the tfpte brofet !