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after-School Special
BluewaTeR jon’s TiPs on swimming wiTh Billfish, BefRiending The media, and why he’s noT CRazy
By TiM shuFF
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HEN “BLUEWATER” JON SCHWARTz at the animal and you’re judging whether or shallow-water, reef-dwelling tuna. I’d like to
isn’t teaching grades two and three at not it’s a threat. You want to help the animal catch some of those things.
Santa Margarita Elementary School in Carls- get away. You don’t want them to suffer just
Got any marlin fishing tips?
bad, California, he’s hooking into marlin and
because you’re having fun.
They wouldn’t be how-to tips. I’m not say-
yellowtail and reporting on it in articles and
Now you’re writing for fishing ing it takes a lot of skill but it’s really risky,
videos. We heard the guy was nuts so we
magazines. How did you get the
so I wouldn’t say “Do what Jon does.” Hire a
called him to find out.
media interested?
licensed professional guide.
Is it true you went swimming with a
I’m a total attention slut and I just bother ev-
What’s the risk?
marlin?
erybody until they respond. You know that
Oh, geez! Well, number one, you’re fishing,
At one point I played too long with this mar-
movie with Jerry Lewis, The King of Comedy?
the fish takes off, you could take a wrap from
lin and he was tired. He wasn’t going belly up
In the old days you used to have to go through
the secretary on the bottom floor to talk to
the line and get dragged under. Go onto You-
but he wasn’t really swimming away either. So
the boss upstairs, but with the Internet you
Tube and punch in “marlin attack.” They’re
I jumped in and I just held him there upright
can email the editor and if you’ve got some-
trying to get away so they just spaz out so they
and pushed him around a little bit. You can
thing interesting and you’re not a jerk about it
could just come straight at you. Marlins put
always push a fish down and go, “Oh yeah, he
they might actually read it.
their bills through transoms of boats so what
survived,” but how do you know? I want them
do you think’s going to happen on a kayak?
to be healthy when I release them. I want
What’s your ultimate fishing goal?
them to be in kicking shape. So I jumped in.
Opah. They’re in the shape of a Frisbee and
So you are crazy.
they can get up to three or four feet in diam-
There’s a lot of things that I don’t do. I don’t
Isn’t that dangerous?
eter. Their face looks like a parrot and the rest
ride bicycles. You won’t find me on a skate-
I’m not a marlinologist. But imagine there’s
of their body looks like this luminous and board. Sure as hell won’t find me on a motor-
some crazy biker dude in a bar, sitting there
pink moon with white dots. I’d love to sink cycle. I don’t shake my students’ hands ‘cause I
downing shots, right? Well, you don’t go up to
a gaff into one of those! Oh, dude! You know don’t want to get sick. So it’s not like I’m some
him when he’s flexing his muscles and trying what I want to do? Dogtooth tuna. They’re total nut. It might seem like that but actually I
to start a fight, but if later on you see him pass tuna except they have these wild teeth. They’re do a lot of thinking about what could happen
out, he’s not a threat. It’s like you’re looking down somewhere near Australia. They’re a beforehand. And so far it’s worked out.
www.kayakanglermag.com
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