Show mako Is fiercest of finny fighters gives greatest thrill in fishing says author new york when it comes to undiluted thrill in fishing there Is according to zane grey nothing that swims which compares with the great mako oft off new zealand waters in the eyes of mr air grey who is s regarded as one of the worlds foremost anglers the great mako Is so swift and ferocious a fighter that it Is more like a torpedo than a fish never in my life writes mr grey in the current issue of natural history journal of the american museum of natural history have I 1 seen such a magnificent spectacle as his leaping he Is a stubborn strong fighter too and must be put in a class by himself while it cannot be proved against him that like some sharks he hc will stalk a man mail I 1 know that when provoked or hurt he will kill and that if lie Is angry and taste blood lie will become as ravenous as a shark A leaping fool one morning trolling we had one of the marvelous leaping mako strikes which makes this sport exciting is bitin g tills this mako which weighed pounds struck our bait and came out in a magnificent leap shining in ID the sunlight a beautiful blue and white shark thrilling to see he dropped back in a huge splash and sounded we ran as close as we dired dared but nothing happened I 1 began to fear that tills this particular fish was not going to perform of his own accord in cases III like e this I 1 usually grow impatient and relax vt vigilance when as a matter of fact the thing Is to be all the keener after about a half hour more we appeared to be getting the upper band and had the miiko mako close its big fin sharp and triangular cut the surface we ran closer hoping to get pictures of what happened at the gaff and we were perhaps feet away when the mako leaped unexpectedly ne ile came out slick and fast without a splash and as he swept upward stiff as a poker glea gleaming ming blue white with wide pectorals spread and huge tall curved his great savage head bend narrowing to a spear point be was assuredly assur eSly a spectacle to ore fire any angler then came the second leap a long low greyhound bound over the sen sea ending in a furious white splash as largo large as my boat ile he shot out so close to our bow that he could hove have been touched tou clied and he went up to half the bet height lit of our mast 15 feet above the water and turned in the air to smack down alth with a resounding roar then he split the water just opposite the cockpit and frightfully close we waited tingling with suspense but ile he did not leap cap again wore himself out all this happened in a few seconds cut but he did not break out again lie he stayed down and wore himself out in the succeeding half hour so that when we finally hauled him up lip to the boat and got the gaff he be had only one wag left our next nest notable experience with a mako occurred some days after that we sighted one on the surface and circled him with a I 1 bait alt lie too took k it IL that mako lashed flashed straight for the boat coming like a streak on the surface ue he seized the rudder in his powerful jaws and churned the water into seething foam in his efforts to bite it off it was iron ron of course and he could not do much damage except to his teeth neither was ile he huge enough to tear the rudder oft off as the sharks do at suva but lie he got away during the months of new zen zea land fish fishing ng mr air grey caught about 70 mako ten of them weighed about pounds while one weighed pounds mako tipping scales at 1200 pounds have been caught |