SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



gave him one hundred feet or more of line 

 and then struck — soHd! The fight began! 



The fish jumped but once, a beautiful 

 clean jump of twenty feet before landing 

 with a splash. As he jumped the bait came 

 up the line and I then knew that he had hit 

 the bait with his sword and had become foul- 

 hooked trying to follow it. 



He was a heavy fish and fought hard as 

 they always do when they do not exhaust 

 themselves by continuous lofty jumping, 



I landed him after ninety minutes of very 

 hard work and found that he was foul-hooked 

 just below the pectoral fin on the right side. 



He had struck when traveling too fast, 

 had driven the bait up the line and turning 

 to get it had hooked himself in the side. 



I had passed the greater part of two morn- 

 ings in an endeavor to outwit this fish and 

 had been rewarded for my labour. That is 

 what I call good fishing. The fish weighed 

 2221/2 pounds. 



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