The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-05-07
LANDING A BIG FISH
The Joy and the Labor Of Catch
ing an Amber lack.
PLUCK or A FlaNY FIGHTER.

In the Duel Between The Angler and
Batting Beauty There Is No Lull In
the Fierce Conflict Tin One or the
Other Is Victorious.
The .boatman Is telling US of certain
catches he has seen when. like an cleo.
trio shock. comes the sharp staccato OF
the click. There is NO installing it:
no tide rip here. And seei Look! Tie
line stiffens. straishtens out like a
wire, trembIes a second. throwing the
water In crystal drops, and then the
gave is given The butt. and the reel
screams, high and low, as the unknown
jerks the line away In long and spien-
did bursts of speed.
There is always the thought that it
may be shark or a ray or some not
desired vermin. but you have taken the
amber jack before and its sturdy
cousin of the California island and
there is no mistake about II.
Springing to your feet. with the butt
ST the rod firmly in the. leather socket
sund your waist, you see what o
ssfhe fish can do, what splendid
strength he brings into play as ne
races away. dragging the line from
beneath your thumb and the heavy
Drake. seemingly playing with it
Fifty, 100 zoo feet OF line slip away
before the fish is stopped, and then 1t
appears to strike heavy, determined
blows at the rod. sweeping around In
splendid half circle. the line cutting
the water and the fish rising with q
peculiar motion.
Amber jacks have been hooked here
that no man could stop. In the Ian
guage of the boatman, they simply
walked away with the line" then
when the end came never stopped, and
there is seemingly no limit 10 the pow
ei's of this fellow.
The angler has a start. the thumb
brake of leather stops the run, and the
big reel begins the pitiiess work. and
while the jack races he is lnsenSlbiy
coming in all the time. More than once
he realizes this and plunges down and
II the water is deep enough Sinks and
bores like salmon and with ten times
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discovers that it IS in the tolls. Like It's
co.gin. the California yellowtail, it
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Mnen coursins aiong at tne SURFACE
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c,azy' pluilslns uoWn 70 lne pad ac'
elalh OF tne Feei. tearing on the hardiy
won llne anu carrying despair lhto the
aHgler soul
BUT TINS Is tae beginning OF me end,
the angler dips the point to the surface