T. I.’S Big Fish.
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Zane Grey To Visit Straits.
From Our Own Correspondent
Thursday Is., Sept. 10.
NEWS has been received that the American novelist and angler, Zane Grey, hopes to sail his yacht into Torres Strait waters some time next year, with the object of seeing what we have to offer in the shape of big fish.
Local fishermen are turning up past records to find out what their heaviest catches in trevalli and ‘couta have been; and anglers, who have been fortunate enough to capture a speci men of the Indian sword fish (gener ally known as the sail-fish), are com paring notes as to size. The sail-fish has been caught out Murray Island way on an ordinary towline, one specimen measuring up nine feet in length: but they are not numerous.
The Strait can provide quite an amount of excitement in big fishing, however. Along the top end of the Barrier, the groper and shark assume large proportions; but even round T. I., through Endeavour Strait and about the surrounding islands, good sport may be found in trevalli, kingfish, and barracouta.