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GOOD FLORIDA SAILFISH RECORD Had not Heniy T. Sloane and Judge Framis Key Pendleton haM ■ snllflsh each when they were rishing ..ff Paha Bench not hang ago, they would have completed the nhys sped arlth the astonishing catch of six. A~ it Wns, With four to their indlt these two New Yorker- brake all records lor .i days catch in number of Bah, size and length. ..mbilion of all the flabl I IBCB vho congregate :n Florida in winter i- la hand a sailfish. Considered the gnsneal of the Inrse Bah to ha found ia southern waters, it reipiires a spoilsman of no little experience t« land one. Sailfish break the water several time- before th.y can be gaffed, and in.. 1.- oftea than not they entangle Unease Ives wtt in line and liel away before they are near enough ... the bo.it to be gaffed. As they an- great rhjht- ii- ii i.-.|iuie- mm Ii strength to land even one. -o it i- easy ta imaflnr the regard la which fishermen who ..in bring in four in .i single day. as these two did. are held by their fellow sportsmen, rhe when only a tow s;.il!i-l, i- a beaiiiiful -ij;lit flying f.et above the surface of the water. When it is in tne arator ii- sail is reeled in a groove on its hark, but na soon as it t merges the huge dorsal fin. which gives ii it- name, is spread like a sail. .in.l -.. long :i- thi- remains net it can fly. Dire. Hy the Baa feels that the wind i- drying Its sail ii r.-tuin- to I lie water. . II. i- i- not the first fishing record af Henry T. Kharae. I.a-i winter be hold the record at Miami Xur uie bc»t catch ot bom-fish, which run from three to six pounds in weight and are u-ually taken in shallow water. They are as timid as trout, although they tight even harder than a small month black bans, and only an expert in CBBtiag can catch I hem. Owing to the fact that they freonent shallow water, it is difficult to j.ret within enstng ranee. The New York Spur. O ■
