SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



Two six-foot wires are strung from the hook 

 to a one-inch ring and two wires of the same 

 length join this ring to another one onto 

 which the line is bent. The rings are for 

 the glove-handed boatman to hold on to 

 when he gaffs the fish. Some fishermen use 

 a chain on the hook and a swivel in place 

 of the middle ring but they are not quite 

 trustworthy. 



Mr. Boschen, the strongest and most skill- 

 ful fisherman in the Tuna Club, has fished 

 for swordfish daily from June 1st to October 

 for three years. He has fought some forty 

 odd fish and has landed but eight. He has 

 battled with them for five, eight, and even 

 eleven hours and half through the night. 

 He tells me they really do not wake up until 

 it grows dark. He fought one fish for eleven 

 hours. The fish sounded forty-eight times 

 and had to be pumped up and led the launch 

 twenty-nine mile? before he was lost owing 

 to the steel hook having cut through the 

 brass chain attached to it. 

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