CHILE 



Lerner both agree that if you are going to lose them you 

 may as well lose them quickly. Don't give them their heads- 

 just an even, quiet, hard fight. You must remain master of 

 the situation. These fish constantly try to outwit the angler 

 with every move they make. When a fish is down— be it loo 

 feet or 500— and starts swimming on a course don't let him 

 stay there. If you can't lift him and make him change his 

 course, try planing him— at least after he's been hooked an 

 hour or two. This maneuver is accomplished by gunning the 

 boat ahead with a very heavy drag still on the reel and if you 

 know your line it need hardly be lightened at all. 



After the boat has gone ahead about 300 feet she should 

 quickly be reversed and run backward as fast as possible to 

 permit the angler to get back the line he has lost. When you 

 get back to your original position and find the fish hasn't 

 moved or isn't doing anything, repeat the procedure six or 

 eight times if necessary. Old man broadbill won't like it and 

 you'll be surprised how many times you can get him started 

 for the surface. If he won't come all the way up, he will at 

 least attain a higher level. Planing a fish may sound alarming 

 to the inexperienced angler yet I have never seen a fish 

 broken off by this maneuver and I have planed a 323-pound 

 striped marlin that was fighting on 9-thread and also some 

 fish on 6-thread. 



If planing doesn't work, try circling on him— always 

 against the direction he is taking or attempting to take. If it 

 doesn't work one way try it the other; fifteen or twenty times 

 in succession aren't too many. Circling is more dangerous 

 than planing because there is much more chance of the boat- 

 man running over the line and parting it. Consequently the 



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