Striped Bass Fishing 



The Fishing Stand at Cuttyhunk, Mass. 



top of the rod can. easily produce. The 

 fish, in the meantime, has succeeded in 

 getting away, say three to four hundred 

 feet now, and shows some hesitation. 

 Our friend has carefully kept a pressure 

 on the reel, whilst indulging his majesty 

 in imaginary freedom of running, but 

 which he begins to realize as "uncanny;" 

 and as our eyes follow the slender thread 

 of the line in its distant entry into the 

 water, it is seen to rise, and presently, with 

 a whirl of his tail, the fish shows himself, 

 looking then to our unskilled eyes a very 

 monster ; and as he again disappears we 

 unhesitatingly pronounce him full six feet 



