SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



An average of two fish a day for twenty- 

 two boats is not great fishing. 



I had taken three good fish in four days, 

 yet was not satisfied with the result of my 

 labours and decided to hunt for fish instead 

 of having them hunt for me. 



One day after luncheon I told my boat- 

 man to go to Gallagher's for a try. Gal- 

 lagher's is a cove at the mouth of a small 

 canon and in the canon there is a dismantled 

 house once occupied by one Gallagher, a 

 fisherman. 



This indentation is out of the tideway and 

 we found its waters alive with bait. We had 

 hardly entered the cove when we saw the 

 large dorsal fin of a marlin that was lying 

 close in to the edge of the kelp comfortably 

 sunning himself. As we approached he 

 sank. 



After trolling about for a time with no 



result, I told the boatman not to bother to 



look for the fish for, judging from the 



amount of food that was about, the marlin 



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