TUNA FISHING 



a flaw in it, and the reel was spread by the 

 second fish, yet I averaged about thirty 

 minutes on the thirteen, and five of them 

 I killed in one day in six hours' fishing. I 

 used a stout rod, a Vom Hofe Star reel, 

 holding eight hundred feet of No. 22 Hall 

 line, and Van Vleck tarpon trolling-hook 

 with swivel and piano-wire snood. 



The leaping tuna do not jump after being 

 hooked, but do when chasing schools of 

 flying-fish, hence the epithet. 



Now, to answer the question, Which is 

 the more game, the fish that stands and 

 fights, the tarpon ; or the tuna, the fish that 

 runs away, then holds on and fights to the 

 last moment? I say the tarpon. Yet there is 

 no sea-fishing sensation equal to the first 

 grand run of a hooked tuna, and he is a 

 harder fish to kill than the tarpon. 



I took my fishing-tackle with me to Sicily 



one April, looking for sport with tuna (the 



famous tunny-fish of the ancients), but 



found I was too early, as the fish do not 



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