SWORDFISHING IN THE PACIFIC 



or more away, where we would follow and 

 try again. We often wasted two hours after 

 one fish in this manner. If the fish are not 

 hungry this treatment seems to bore them 

 for they will jump out clumsily four or five 

 times. 



I played the third fish four hours and 

 forty minutes, "Shorty" taking the rod for 

 a short time to allow him to feel the weight 

 of the fish. When the fish seemed to be 

 leading nicely the hook pulled out. I am 

 sure he was foul-hooked in his thin-skinned 

 body for I could feel the hook slip from 

 time to time. After the first hour he jumped 

 at least ten feet into the air showing plainly 

 his broad back, which looked as wide as 

 the bottom of a canoe. He then ran out six 

 hundred feet of line and fought on the sur- 

 face. This amused the dog, Pard, greatly. 



It is difficult to persuade a broadbill to 

 bite and still more difficult to hook him, and 

 if he is a big one, still more difficult to do 

 anything with him after he is hooked. 

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