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So ended the hunt, and once more rey- 
nard’s wits were out-done by the keen 
nose of a good dog. 
We returned to camp, put the dogs 
in their box, gave them a good meal, 
then prepared and ate our breakfast; 
after which we packed our goods on 
the car and got started for home at 
nine o’clock. I will not dwell on the 
trouble we encountered with snow 
drifts on the way home. It is enough 
to say we did not arrive home until 
three o’clock in the afternoon. 
Since the hunt recorded in these 
pages, I have had several others in 
different parts of the country after the 
little red fellows, and on one occasion 
bagged the quarry within one hour of 
the time he started, but never have I 
felt the satisfaction that I derived 
from bagging that fox in the River 
Swamp. 
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angling, Mr. Heilner: 
“I find as much pleasure in hook¬ 
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landing many others among the great 
game fishes which feed in the surf. . . . 
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and I have no doubt that, unless this 
fish receives a deserved recognition 
among the surf-fishing clubs, that in¬ 
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a hundred pounds, I want regular belt¬ 
ers ! Oh, yes, I’ve had ’em since then— 
for a few minutes; when a big shark 
makes up his mind to seek another spot 
he goes away from where he was in a 
hurry, and many tail ends of good line 
have I seen slip off my reel. 
For this game, as for channel bass 
and all the other large fighters, the very 
best of tackle must be employed. The 
usual surf rig is sufficient; the rod, 
however, must be powerful and of the 
very best quality to withstand the 
rough handling that Mr. Shark gives 
it. The reel should be rather bigger than 
that necessary to land bass; it should 
be large enough to hold at least 1,500 
feet of No. 15 line or more. In fact, 
the reel can hardly be too large; the 
only drawback is that in these large 
reels the freespool adjustment is miss¬ 
ing. After a little practice, however, 
the revolving handle will cease to 
bother one. 
The hook should be equipped with a 
ten or twelve-foot phosphor-bronze or 
rustproof wire leader and ( swivel, and 
the hook attached to the leader with a 
short length of bronze chain, the links 
of which are brazed. Unless one is 
rigged in this manner the shark will 
soon free himself; either the line will 
chafe through or it will be cut by the 
thrashing tail. 
I have used woven or braided leaders 
of fine wire, but to me these do not seem 
to stand up as well as the solid wire. 
It is mighty well to be equipped with 
a gaff; thumb stalls, too, are an abso¬ 
lute necessity unless you use the auto¬ 
matic wheel brake, otherwise you will 
“darn” the sharks, too, as your thumb 
blisters up. 
That shark fishing is coming into its 
own at last seems certain. Let me quote 
“Those of us who honor a fish in pro¬ 
portion to the battle he gives us will 
be apt to disregard the evil name the 
shark has brought upon himself, and 
will give him the credit for his good 
qualities, and this even though his vir¬ 
tues and his attractions to the casual 
eye be nil. . „ I am satisfied that the 
time will come when the shark will be 
classed among the great game-fish of 
the ocean and will be pursued with all 
the zeal and interest that are displayed 
in angling for either channel or striped 
bass.” 
Don’t despise the “Doggies,” either, 
the big boys’ little cousins; don’t think 
they are not game. I don’t mean the 
little fellows that you hardly know are 
on your hook. Why, last fall I—but 
that is another story, as Kipling says. 
Suffice it to say, just you try “doggies” 
of upwards M twenty pounds or more 
on light tackle—you’ll have your work 
cut out for you, and never again will 
you question cheir fighting powers. 
“Durn them shirks” again comes to 
me — a memory of a stormy, blowy 
morning, out at the nets with the 
friendly fisher-folk. The sharks had 
evidently been attracted by the fish in¬ 
side the nets that day, and the savage, 
hungry fellows had created havoc with 
the catch as well as with the nets. Here 
and there were heads stuck in the nets, 
the bodies nipped cleanly off, and worse 
than this, in the minds of the fisher¬ 
man, was the damage done the nets— 
holes and shreds galore. Oh, yes, the 
fisher-folk, as a rule, love ’em! 
The schools of doggies are especially 
esteemed by the fishermen—not. The 
trawlers, too, voice the sentiment, “Durn 
them shirks,” with vim. Just think, a 
single dory will fish several thousand 
hooks, and with ten to twelve dories to 
a schooner there is some choice picking 
on old ocean’s bottom for the “doggies,” 
and what they do to the fisherman’s 
bait is aplenty. 
These pests range the coast at times 
in large schools, rush into a fishing 
ground, where they take possession and 
then as suddenly leave; but so voracious 
are they that when they are on the 
fishing grounds the fishermen are up 
against it. 
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