SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



ing that the next best thing to catching fish 

 is to fish for them without catching them. 

 I having supplied Miss C. with a rod and a 

 newly purchased tarpon reel, we started, 

 sitting side by side in chair seats in the stern 

 of the fishing launch — a very pleasant 

 scheme for gentle conversation but not for 

 fishing; for it is customary that, if one of 

 the party hooks a fish, the other shall reel in 

 and patiently watch the sport. 



We had been out on the ocean about half 

 an hour when I hooked a tuna. At the same 

 moment I heard my companion shout, "I 

 have one too, and our lines are crossed." 

 I stood up in the boat, passed my rod under 

 and over hers, and luckily cleared the lines. 

 My fish traveled fast to the north, the other 

 fish going south. Then the fun began in 

 earnest, I told the boatman to sit tight as 

 there was nothing he could do to help us, 

 and, having taken the seat in the stern facing 

 the bow of the boat, I began to fight my fish 

 with all my strength, for I knew that the 



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