TUNA FISHING 



Breton Island, but found it very difficult to 

 get to them ; for they seem to come into the 

 bay on the tide, turn, and go out to sea 

 again, and rarely dwell. St. Ann's Bay is 

 open to the northeast, and it is seldom that 

 the sea is in such condition that it is safe to 

 fish. Then, again, it is almost impossible 

 to obtain bait. The waters seem bare of fish 

 of any kind, which must account for the 

 short visits of the tuna, for they will not 

 remain where there is no food. 



Mr. J. K. L. Ross, who passes his sum- 

 mers at St. Ann's Bay, is the pioneer of the 

 tuna fishing there. He has had great sport 

 during the last four seasons, having been 

 fast to more than fifty of these giant fish 

 during that time. He was unsuccessful until 

 the twenty-eighth of August, 1911, when he 

 succeeded in landing, after a fight lasting 

 four hours and forty-five minutes, a fish 

 eight feet ten inches long, with a girth of 

 six feet three inches, and weighing 680 

 pounds on the scales at Sydney twenty-four 



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