Identifier: sportonlandwater01gris (find matches)
Title: Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, F. Gray (Frank Gray), 1854-1937
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting Fishing Horse racing
Publisher: (Norwood, Mass.) : Privately printed (The Plimpton Press)
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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n hours of struggle. 108 SPORT ON LAND AND WATER They tell me that there is a differencein tuna; that some are much stronger thanothers, which I do not doubt. My onlyexperience has been with fourteen landed atCatalina and one lost at St. Anns Bay,Cape Breton Island. The latter I lost afterthirty minutes, and was greatly relieved;for he looked to be over eight hundredpounds in weight, and was too strong forme and my tackle. From my experienceat Catalina, I believe that any tuna up totwo hundred pounds in weight should belanded in thirty minutes; but the tacklemust be strong and sound, so that it causesyou no thought, and you must havehands. The fascination of heavy fish-ing is the give and take between man andfish, the knowledge of what your tacklewill stand, and the power that it gives youto convince the fish of the fact that youare his master. This is done by hands,just as riding a horse properly depends uponhands. No man can ride well who hasnot hands, and so it is with strong fish-
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/i sn TUNA FISHING 109 ing. Brakes on reels do not help you, orthey help you too much. They make youtoo strong, and your tackle suffers. Fishare no longer killed; they are murdered.It requires but little skill to fish with a reelbrake, and it is the cause of the loss of mostof the tuna hooked at Catalina. My advice to a novice who wishes toland a tuna is: fish with a stiff rod and asound line, keep your rod up, your leftthumb on the reel, and do not let up on thefish. Do not use the brake when trolling.When the fish strikes, put all the strain onyour tackle that it will stand, and stop yourfish with thumb-pressure and the bend ofthe rod only. The farther the fish runs,the more quickly you will kill him, as itis very exhausting to a fish to travel fastunder such a strain. If the drag is on, hewill stop sooner; but being still fresh, hewill try other methods which are moreexhausting to you than to him. At theend of his first run is the moment to fighthim to a finish. If he gets his seco

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