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small fish in abundance, with a long-finned tuna 

 and bonito of two varieties. This is the feast 

 presented to the disciple of Walton in these 

 seas of happy chance, but it so happened that 

 the amber-fish, better known as the yellowtail, 

 were in such force and of such size and fighting 

 temper, that they monopolized the field, and the 

 sport was of such strenuous and sensational na- 

 ture that there was but little desire to vary the 

 catch; indeed, the amber-fish, had, at least for 

 the time, pre-empted the field and were in such 

 numbers and of such size that they completely 

 filled the angling vision. 



It would have been a piscatorial saturnalia 

 had these anglers fished with hand-line, after the 

 bluefish fashion. Imagine the scene as the boats 

 rounded the point: the water blue as sapphire, 

 the surface smooth, unruffled, the summer day 

 cool and beautiful. The long swells come in 

 from somewhere to the west, strike the point, 

 and go booming upward, sending masses of foam, 

 like molten silver, into the air. Near-by rise 

 the lofty cliffs, the inner wall of the supposed 

 crater with its weird caves, its burnt umber 

 shadows of the gardens of the sea below. The 

 launches pass the long point, turn, and are fairly 

 within the " crater," opposite a little bay, with 

 a stretch of coast line reaching three miles up 

 to Mosquito, a very Rialto of the fishes. 



Slowly the lines are paid out as the launch 



