Sports Parade: Big Fish

[Music] this is fishing by the wholesale and it takes heavy nets to corral these monsters of the deep up they come on their way to the canning factory and maybe to your table not one in the cat weighs less than 600 pounds and it's not a fish story to say that once a 1500 pounder was captured that's a lot of tuna into the safety pond they go ten thousand pounds of tuna in a day's cat [Music] we're off the east coast of florida with a host of other boats out for those jumping battling sailfish and marlins the bait is a whole fish for the sailfish are heavy eaters it is dropped from a rod and reel or swung away from the boat from the outrigger they are fighters too like lightning they take the bait out of the water they jump trying to throw the hook from their mouths it's a sport for real fishermen with strong muscles and plenty of endurance [Music] vote number five is the first to have luck and here is the prize but the fight goes on another line tightens another battle between man and fish is on [Music] it's summer off the florida coast and the warm waters of the gulf stream lure such monsters as these to the bait watch him pull and jump and tug what a tough one that fisherman is battling it actually took over an hour to land this one but in this picture we'll bring him in in a minute and he's a dandy so they're not fish but what's the difference they're big enough to go after with a different kind of bait and here it is sorry she blows whales seem to rove around the waters of the seven seas but we're now in the south pacific and having luck this one measured 72 feet and weighed 85 tons while the crew is pulling him in let's see what's happening on the port side a thousand-pound stranger a sunfish wondering what it's all about but he's useless as food or for anything else so we let him go after a warning further aft we discover another stranger evidently after our cat doo a hammerhead shark and he comes aboard now for a whale of a thrill out in a small boat for the big sea mammal one swish of a whale's tail could break the small craft into splinters but the men know their job and on they come it's dangerous work whether you like it or not two is enough for today so while they are being towed back to shore they are pumped full of air to make them float one man in a row boat is enough to tow the whale ashore but it takes real power to drag him up and that's the end of a big fish story here's bait for the biggest fish in any sea but after all we're out to bring in enough for dinner and this time it's salmon no time for line and sinker here these fellows want mass production so great heavy nets do the job these are all over 30 pounds some as high as 50. it's a fisherman's paradise [Music] in comes the silver horde hundreds of shiny thrashing salmon so many that they nearly sink the boat we've loaded three tons of salmon already [Music] we went out for big fish and we got them [Music] you