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will content myself with expressing surprise that 

 any fish hooked deep down in its inside should be 

 expected to give better sport than one hooked just 

 in the edge of the mouth. At any rate, I can 

 recall no analogy in support of the contention, and 

 I fancy that if my correspondent had tried the Pass 

 as well, he would have modified an opinion based 

 on hearsay. 



So splendid a fish as the tarpon should be given 

 the best chance in the fight. For this reason, I 

 have criticised somewhat unsparingly the great 

 strength of the tackle employed in Pass fishing, 

 which seems to me, from the point of view of sport, 

 excessively powerful. To let the fish gorge the 

 bait and thus hamper it in its magnificent evolutions 

 by a hook and stiff wire embedded in its vitals, 

 appears to me, with all deference to the gentleman 

 who, though disliking the method, claims that it 

 gives good sport, nothing short of heinous. I 

 would as soon set trimmers for trout. 



