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TUNA FISHING 



THERE has been so much written about 

 tuna fishing at Catalina Island, Calif., that 

 I do not purpose to describe again how it is 

 done. Many of the accounts I have read 

 are very picturesque, but for the most part 

 so exaggerated that many people are 

 frightened from trying to kill a tuna, and 

 those who do try are so unnerved that they 

 either fail or take hours instead of minutes 

 to accomplish the task. A task it is, for the 

 tuna is the strongest fish that one can fight 

 with a rod. 



My first visit to Catalina, some twenty 

 years since, was crowned with success, as the 

 fish were very plentiful. My second visit 

 was in 1910, and the fish were very scarce. 

 I landed one fish, the only one taken during 

 my ten days' visit. There were ten hooked 



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