FISHING THE PACIFIC 



I have become a trifle bored with the whole proceeding of 

 using 6- and 9-thread— something I never feel after a six- or 

 eight-hour fight when using 3 9-thread. I might add that 

 many of the light-tackle enthusiasts and others who contend 

 with heavy tackle would be all at sea if placed in a chair with 

 a 12/0 reel filled with 3 9-thread and told to fight a fish. I am 

 sure that many of them couldn't cope with the physical stress. 

 Then again, the man who fishes with heavy tackle in his 

 youth can always fish light tackle when he is older, and in- 

 capable of standing the strain of the heavy drag set with the 

 3 9-thread required. 



I have heard heavy-tackle anglers facetiously remark that 

 they'll use 9-thread when they're sixty, 6-thread when 

 they're in their seventies and 3 -thread when they reach 

 eighty. They really have something there. However, I still 

 like to do my share of stunting and take a few big fish on very 

 light line. Monafilament Une should be barred, for it is simply 

 fishing with a leader. A man using this has a decided ad- 

 vantage over the Hnen-line devotee, particularly in a fish's 

 action around the boat. 



Hook Your Own Fish 



In offering counsel to those who are tyros at the exciting 

 sport of salt-water fishing I cannot overemphasize the fact 

 that it affords greater enjoyment (even though it may cost 

 a fish or two in the beginning) when you hook a fish, fight 

 him, manipulate the star drag on the reel and bring your prize 

 to gaff unaided. In addition, that is the only way to have your 

 fish recognized as legitimate catch. No part of the fishing 

 tackle may be touched by anyone except the angler from the 



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