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a comparatively short distance away from 
us the hundred foot cliffs were invisible 
when our boat was in the trough. 
Soon a flock of gulls were seen hovering 
low, not far away. O'n approaching them 
more closely, we could see that they were 
darting down frequently, splashing, and ris¬ 
ing again. Then the water was seen to 
be broken in many places by the albicore, 
and here and there could be caught a 
glimpse of silvery side or belly as the fish 
rolled in play at the surface. Those of our 
party who were new to the game were 
thrilled with anticipation at the sight of our 
quarry, and felt sure that as we passed 
through the school some of the scholars 
would like to play with us. But our guide 
shook his head. 
“When you see ’em like that, there ’aint 
apt to be anything doing. They bite best 
when you don’t see ’em,” was his discour¬ 
aging comment. 
And so it was. 
Again and again, as we chugged along 
through a school of the albicore that play 
on the surface—and there were many such 
schools, each with its accompanying gulls 
in attendance—the fish failed to strike at 
our bait. However we had not been many 
minutes on the fishing grounds before two 
of us felt almost simultaneously a powerful 
yank, followed by a rush of our lines which 
tore them whizzing from the reels in spite 
of heavy drags, clicks and leather friction 
thumb-pads. One missed. His fish tore 
loose or freed itself by some other piscine 
manoeuver, leaving a disappointed swear¬ 
ing angler to reel in disconsolately. 
The other, more fortunate, fought out 
the good fight. Here and there the unwill¬ 
ing captive raced, now toward the boat (his 
hopeful captor reeling in for dear life to 
keep the line taut), now speeding away 
with fathom after fathom of line, now cut¬ 
ting the surface in his rushes, now boring 
deeply with heavy downward pull. And 
so it went on in the way well beloved of 
anglers from time immemorial, until by 
slow degrees of pumping in and letting go 
a little, the game was exhausted and could 
be brought to Arlo’s waiting gaff. It 
seemed many minutes before that fish was 
hauled into the cockpit and a certain biceps 
muscle ached so from the long strain that 
it was a matter of surprise when the scales 
showed that the victim weighed but fifteen 
pounds. But these are game fish. 
For a couple of hours the sport was 
good, though streaky. Minutes would pass 
without a strike and then several would 
come in quick succession. Let us not deny 
that many fish got away. And let me ad¬ 
mit, too, that our competitors in the other 
boat caught three times as many fish as 
we did. They took twenty-seven back to 
the harbor and we but nine. But they did 
not enjoy the morning’s sport more than 
we did. Their better results were after¬ 
ward accounted for by Arlo, who explained 
that they had fished further inshore. 
And here’s why we allowed them to ven¬ 
ture in among the breakers further than 
we did, for the most part. One of our 
party asked Arlo to steer nearer to the 
beach in order to obtain at close quarters 
a photograph of the huge waves rolling in, 
raising their tops higher and higher as the 
water grew shallow in their progress shore¬ 
ward, until the off-shore wind tore away 
their crests in clouds of mist that looked at 
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