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Show M'MILLAN HOOKS LARGEST SUN FISH ON RECORD By Associated Press. ' LOS ANGELES. Cal.. April 2. A 3000-pound 3000-pound sun flslr, thought to be the largest ever captured, was taken yesterday off Catalina Island by W. N. McMillan, owner of the Ju-Ju ranch Jn South Africa, and cnlortalner of Colonel Roosevelt when tho former president went to Africa a year ago on his hunting trip. McMillan nnd Captain Clover, his boatman, boat-man, declare that tho monster fish took a trolling halt and that they wrestled with the fish for an hour and forty minutes min-utes before a launch could bo brought near enough to gaff It. Even then It took four men, including McMillan, to keep the monster on the surface and tow it Into Avalon bay. where tho prize was piloted to tho wharf. Difficulty was had In securing tacklo strong onough to hoist the fish from tho water. McMillan claims to havo landed his prize with a three-six tacklo while he was fishing for yellow tall. |