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Attracted by tales of the huge fish, high society turned its attention to
Scarborough where sport was available only a few miles offshore. Special trains were run from London to bring the luminaries. Magazines published many sensational stories covering the personalities and the yachts that sailed to
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Each season up until 1939 saw fish of over 700 pounds (320 kg) being caught and the size of the specimens drew vast crowds. The town of
Scarborough was transformed into a resort for the wealthy. A gentlemen's club the British Tunny Club was founded in 1933 and set up its headquarters there. The
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so he could exhibit it as a tourist attraction. Henry
Stapleton-Cotton pioneered sport fishing for tunny in Britain although both the fish he hooked in 1929 escaped. Big-game fishing effectively started in 1930 when Lorenzo "Lawrie" Mitchell–Henry, when fifty miles offshore, landed the first tunny
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The tunny is a large and powerful fish, arguably the strongest fish in the world, with a fishing season mostly in August and
September in Britain. In the 1930s rods six foot six inches long were used made of hickory, bamboo, lancewood and greenheart. American Ashaway lines of natural fibre were
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succeeded in catching a 691-pound (313 kg) and a 647-pound (293 kg) fish together on a single line. Colonel
William Francis Henn, Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, was towed four miles in his coble by the 707-pound (321 kg) tunny he caught and Peel had to put about
228:. The British record which still stands is for a fish weighing 851 pounds (386.0 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Lorenzo Mitchell-Henry but in 1949 a larger fish weighing 852 pounds (386.5 kg) was taken on a 160-pound (73 kg) line by a
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caught on rod and line weighing 560 pounds (250 kg). After a poor season in 1931, the following year saw Harold Hardy of
Cloughton Hall battling with a tunny about 16 feet long for over seven hours before his line snapped. Also on board the trawler
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for nearly 50 years. Off the north-west coast of
Ireland Alan Glanville caught a 353-pound (160 kg) fish and next day caught one of 529 pounds (240 kg). In 2001 a 968-pound (439 kg) bluefin tuna was caught off the Irish coast in
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In 1947 Dr Bidi Evans fishing from her father's yacht caught a 714-pound (324 kg) tunny with which she still holds the
British women's record. The last tunny to be caught was in 1954 since which time none has been caught off the coast of
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264:. Although local fishermen considered there had been no tunny before World War I, these studies suggested that migration into the North Sea had not been recent. There are photographs of Peel and Russell engaged on this study.
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Often tunny were to be found near commercial herring drifters tracking the migrating shoals of herring along the coast, or near steam trawlers hauling their catches. Actual angling was done from a small boat, sometimes a
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interrupted fishing and after the war the technical developments in commercial fishing in the North Sea reduced herring and mackerel stocks and led to the disappearance of tunny.
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The discovery of tunny raised the question as to whether they had been around but undiscovered all the time. Colonel Peel was interested in marine biology and he made his yacht
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were four visitors who described the struggle as "the greatest fight they had ever seen in their lives". Mrs
Sparrow caught a fish of 469 pounds (212.7 kg).
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In 1932 Edward Peel landed a world-record tunny of 798 pounds (362.0 kg), capturing the record by 40 pounds (18.1 kg) from one caught off
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was a sport practised by wealthy aristocrats and military officers mostly in the 1930s. The
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The Glory Days of the Giant Scarborough Tunny: The British Tunny Club, Hardy Bros. Tackle and Big Game Fishing in the 1930s
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with her daughter Gladys, "said to be the richest heiress in the Empire". The yacht, which is now owned by Sir
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caught a 560-pound (250 kg) tunny and a Scarborough showman awarded the crew 50
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Hindle, E. (December 1961). "Obituary: Sir Edward Townley Peel, KBE DSO MC".
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The two bluefin tuna caught by Lord Egerton, preserved at
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578:"Great Haul of Tunny. Two Fish landed on the same line"
358:"Novice catches Britain's biggest fish for 50 years"
212:, at the time had twelve bathrooms and a gymnasium.
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Tunny - The Rise and Fall of Britain's Biggest Fish
883:"Giant tuna caught off west coast - Independent.ie"
74:towed to the fishing grounds behind a large yacht.
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497:"Atlantic Bluefin Tuna: Wild, Farmed, or Neither?"
523:"The Glory Days of the Giant Scarborough "Tunny""
185:whilst waiting for his guests to bring in tunny.
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671:"Large Tunny Fish caught by Naval Officer"
397:"Big Game fishing off the Yorkshire coast"
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356:Elliott, Keith (30 September 2000).
181:but he personally chose to fish for
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469:. World Sea Fishing. Archived from
248:Rise and decline of North Sea tunny
24:Sport of English gentleman in 1930s
893:from the original on 24 June 2022.
814:Russell, F.S. (18 November 1933).
772:Russell, F.S. Russell (May 1934).
550:Hudson, Robert (3 February 2013).
310:"The Scarborough big game fishery"
161:Chairman of the Conservative Party
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521:Cermele, Joe (21 October 2010).
312:. Fishing Museum. Archived from
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216:World and British tunny records
202:, sailed in her 1574-ton yacht
171:, later assassinated in Egypt.
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692:"On the TRAIL of GIANT FISH"
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131:of the wealthy aristocratic
929:Tunny Fishing For Beginners
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966:. Caxton Publishing.
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641:"On the Tunny Track"
401:Welcome to Filey Bay
908:Ross, Mark (2010).
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175:Henri de Rothschild
1001:1930s in Yorkshire
964:The Art of Angling
931:. Seeley Services.
902:General references
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155:in 1934 and 1937;
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