Outing . pringingin they followed the fish in his wildcareer, allowing him, however, a fair per-centage of towing. Again and again thetarpon sprang clear of the water, fiercelyshaking his head ; each time the rod wastipped at the right moment and the jerkingstrain avoided. The tarpons course, for-tunately for the angler, is an erratic jump will change his it not for this you might as wellplay a torpedo on a rod and line as a tar-pon. Time and again he dashed straightfor the boat, and, safe in the boat as Tomfelt himself to be, it was nevertheless un-comfortable to see t
Outing . pringingin they followed the fish in his wildcareer, allowing him, however, a fair per-centage of towing. Again and again thetarpon sprang clear of the water, fiercelyshaking his head ; each time the rod wastipped at the right moment and the jerkingstrain avoided. The tarpons course, for-tunately for the angler, is an erratic jump will change his it not for this you might as wellplay a torpedo on a rod and line as a tar-pon. Time and again he dashed straightfor the boat, and, safe in the boat as Tomfelt himself to be, it was nevertheless un-comfortable to see the monster cleave thewater, dashing straight at him. But Tom was ready for him each time,and, thanks to his large multiplying reel,took in his slack in time and dipped hisrod in the water as he passed underneaththe boat. Now the tarpon stopped hisrushes, and lying on the surface flappedhis tail, feebly an inexperienced anglermight think. Tom, however, did not flat-ter himself that he had already tired the. CASTING THE MULLET OUT. A GOOD DAYS TARPON FTSH/NG. 325 brute, but telling Raphael to row upalongside the fish as near as possible, hebegan a sort of up-and-down sawing mo-tion with his rod. He was trying to getthe snell of the hook caught in thestrange cut or slit beneath the upperjaw of the tarpon. Once in it, Tomknew that it would not slip out and the tarpon was all motion. Now, out ofthe water, shaking his head, now dashingthis way and that, taking the sharpestcurves, sometimes even grinding his nosein the sand ! Gradually the jumps be-came weaker and weaker until soon noth-ing but the tarpons head appeared abovewater when he tried to jump, and he
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