Popular Salt=Water Game Fish 



tide best, but like all game fish, the tuna has its 

 off and on times for taking the lure cast before 



it on its onward rushes for the flying 

 Casting prey. Sometimes the water swarms with 



them on the feed, but they will not strike. 

 The advantage of being among them when the fly- 

 ing fish leaps from the water, with the tuna after 

 it, is great, just as when a trout leaps for the 

 natural fly and an artificial fly is cast in its place. 



Way to bait hook. 



But when the bait is snapped up, the game has 

 begun, though hooked is not landed; like the tar- 

 pon, many are hooked and not boated; while the 

 reel is heard to sing such a tune as no other fish 

 can make; and so the battle rages on ecjual terms, 

 sometimes for hours, and miles are cut through the 

 water at a spanking rate before the gamy fish is 

 brought alongside. By no means subdued 

 or conquered, it lashes the water with its 

 broad tail, even at the time it slides into the boat, 

 fighting continuously from the beginning to the 

 time the gaff goes home. Many a fish is lost at 

 that critical moment, and a cool, business-like 

 gaffer is a decided advantage in tuna fishing; for a 

 more well equipped adversary the angler cannot 

 imagine, nor does he wish for such, unless en- 

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