Bill Sargent Outdoors - TODAY - Tuesday, July
20, 1971: Old Water
Trick
Brings Record Bonito - Skip Mackey's
bucket-of-water trick
has worked again as he landed a world-record 17-pound,
13-ounce
bonito. Mackey already holds two International Spin
Fish Association
records for a 17-pound 6-ounce bluefish on six-pound
test and a
25-pound barracuda on six. On Sunday Mackey
landed a 51-pound
tarpon which beats his own FSFA record of
17-pounds on a flyrod