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| Jim Pardew | |
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280lb Black Marlin, Bermagui, March 1940
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| Jim Pardew | |
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Caption on back, “With Striped Marlin at Montague Island, 1935. Locally made reel of brass, by Jack McMahon. Capacity 900 yards of Cutty hunk (Irish Linen) with breaking strain of 72 pounds dry increasing by 10% wet. Rod made of American hickory. This fish if one of only 2 marlin caught, the other one a black marlin caught by Mr Winter on this trip to Montague”
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| Jim Simpson | |
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1912 - 1984. Jim Simpson managed Mick Simmons tackle shop Sydney. Circa 1937
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| John McGregor | |
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With Black Marlin, New Zealand, Circa 1939
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Standing, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, and seated in middle Jim Whitelaw
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| Max Lawson with well known post WW2 angler, Jack Kelly | |
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Pictured on Lawson’s “Murrawolga”. 1948. Max Lawson (1895 - 1985) pictured left. Pioneer big game fisherman from Sydney who was arguably the leading angler from his boat “Avalon” prior to World War 2 and from his “Murrawolga” from 1947 to 1956. Mentor and coach of a later generation of game fishermen.
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