Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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Long-Finned Tuna. GREAT MEMBERS OF THE TUNA FAMILY.
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GIFFORD PINCHOT, SENATOR WHITE, AND ASST. ATTY.-GEN. Samuel Woodroff DISCUSSING TUNA TACKLE.
of before. All these men fought their bones in mounds hundreds of years old. game with a line not much larger than I believed that they would come back, an eyeglass cord, and with rod and and took pains, when I wrote about the reel, establishing a standard of sport past, to emphasize the fact that they that has challenged the admiration of were uncertain fishes and could not be the world of angling. depended on. The strange part of it Tuna fishing became a fixture and was that not a year passed that I did men came from England every year not see or hear of tunas, but they would for the season. This lasted five or six not bite and they were not present to years, and then something happened; the tunas gradually stopped biting until the fishing was virtually a blank, the record for the years being a very slim one. Those who now came for the tuna fishing looked askance at therecords and the big fish;

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