By Rock And Pool On An Austral Shore, And Other Stories
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I had smaller ones down to three inches, but always pre- ferred using the largest size, as the palu has a large mouth, and it is a difficult matter in a small canoe on a dark night to free a hook embedded in the gullet of a fish which is awkward to handle even when ex- hausted, and weighing as much as sixty or seventy Digitized by Google 152 BY ROCK AND POOL pounds ; while I also knew that any unusual noise or commotion would be almost sure to attract some of those most dangerous of all night-p...rowlers of the Pacific, the deep-water blue shark. Paddling out due westward from the lee side of the island, where the one village is situated, we would bring-to in about seventy or eighty &thoms. As I always used leaden sinkers, my companions invariably let me lower first to test the depth, as with a two or three-pound lead my comparatively thin line took but little time in running out and touching bottom. A whole flying-fish was used for one bait by the natives, it being tied on to the inner curve of the great wooden hook, whilst I cut one in half, fore-and-aft, and ran my hook through it lengthwise.
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