TALES OF FISHES 



using ropes and Heaven knows what else! It was 

 vile and it failed. 



Jump has performed the apparently impossible. 

 Marlin swordfish hooked on light tackle can be 

 handled by an exceedingly skilful angler. They 

 make an indescribably spectacular, wonderful fight, 

 on the surface all the time, and can be taken as 

 quickly as on heavy tackle. Obviously, then, this 

 becomes true of tarpon and sailfish and small tuna. 

 What a world to conquer lies before the fine-spirited 

 angler! A few fish on light outfits magnifying all 

 the excitement and thrills of many fish on heavy 

 outfits! There are no arguments against this, for 

 men who have time and money. 



We pioneers of light tackle are out of the woods 

 now. There was a pride in a fight against odds — 

 a pride of silence, and a fight of example and ex- 

 pressed standards and splendid achievements. But 

 now we have followers, disciples who have learned, 

 who have profited, who have climbed to the heights, 

 and we are no longer alone. Hence we can scatter 

 the news to the four winds and ask for the comrade- 

 ship of kindred spirits, of men who love the sea and 

 the stream and the gameness of a fish. The Open 

 Sesame to our clan is just that love, and an ambition 

 to achieve higher things. Who fishes just to kill? At 

 Long Key last winter I met two self-styled sports- 

 men. They were eager to convert me to what they 

 claimed was the dry-fly class angling of the sea. 

 And it was to jab harpoons and spears into porpoises 

 and manatee and sawfish, and be dragged about 

 in their boat. The height of their achievements 

 that winter had been the harpooning of several saw- 



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