A little tender loving care between uses or at least once a season, and you'll have a glove that lasts you many seasons. Here's what to do: 1  Brush the dirt and dust off your glove with a light brush. 2  Use a damp cloth or sponge to apply a small amount of glove leather cleaner; Lexol leather cleaner is good.3  Wipe the entire glove with it. 4  Remove the cleaner from the glove with a damp cloth or sponge, and allow to air dry. little tender loving care between uses or at least once a season, and you'll have a glove that lasts you many seasons. Here's what to do: 1  Brush the dirt and dust off your glove with a light brush. 2  Use a damp cloth or sponge to apply a small amount of glove leather cleaner; Lexol leather cleaner is good.
Yet while Hemingway loved hunting, it was when he had a rod in his hand that he was truly successful. It was from the deck of the Pilar that Hemingway famously landed the largest marlin caught to date in 1935, weighing an astonishing 1175 lbs. Truly, his greatest exploit by his own reckoning may very well not have been his literary achievements, but his success with rod and reel.
Pictured below is a massive blue marlin that was caught off Okinawa by a commercial fisherman using a handline. It is said to have bottomed a one ton (1,000 kg) set of scales meaning the fish weighed more than 2,200 lbs. Easily seen in this photo is a primary distinguishing characteristic of blue marlin (vs.