Photographer unknown
1936
Sara Houston Chisholm, officially Mrs. S. Kip Farrington Jr. but called Chissie, caught two giant tuna in September 1936 in Nova Scotia. Her husband, a "gentleman sportsman," had been an editor at Field and Stream magazine but retired to East Hampton at a young age to pursue sports and write. Mrs. Farrington, who kept up with her husband on the seas, was the first woman known to land a broadbill swordfish (it weighed 584 pounds), and she received written congratulations from none other than Ernest Hemingway. At her right above is the 493-pound fish she battled for 10 hours and 35 minutes; at her left a 720-pounder she took in 1 hour and 38 minutes.