Dinks “hooked up” to another marlin with the same harness and rod and reel that Cappy had used to land hers.
Two sailfish and one bull dolphin caught by the Fitzgeralds in Georgetown.
South Carolina’s first boated blue marlin with the Kona head lure used to catch it.
Cappy Fitzgerald at the Esso Dock in Georgetown with South Carolina’s first blue marlin.
Cappy and Dinks with tarpons in Marathon, Florida, in the 1950s.
Captain “Biddy” Alderman and Dinks Fitzgerald in the cockpit of the sport fisherman.
Cappy and Dinks with tarpons in Marathon, Florida, in the 1950s.
Dinks on the bridge of their sport fisherman.
The Fitzgeralds’ 38-foot Post sport fisherman.
Cappy and the dock dog, Maggie, waiting for Dinks to go fish off the dock in Georgetown.
The program from the 20th annual Georgetown Blue Marlin tournament in 1987 includes this 1967 photo of Dinks Fitzgerald and Wallace Pate with Pate’s 200-pound blue marlin.
Ellison Smith IV cutting a piece of the marlin for his father, Judge Ellison Smith III, who said he would “eat it if they caught one.”
Dinks and son, Kenny, making notations on the NOAA chart. Dinks kept meticulous records about the areas they fished: bottom structure, depths, weed lines, fish sightings and hook-ups, as well as fish landed.
Judge Ellison Smith III “eating” the marlin as his son and Kenny Fitzgerald look on.
