Show d d PLAYED A FISH FISK TWELVE HOURS I Then Then th the Fish ired the he Spot Sport and ana l Abandoned Aban the Angler Angl r Twelve hours bours is a pretty prett long time tim to devote to onet fish said Charles F K Kac Nae thing who fishes for tarpon and will shortly attempt at the New York Athletic club to demonstrate that he can call land hand a swimmer In the clubhouse pool just as easily as a he lie can ml An a fish Fred J Wells Veils one of the board of governors taking the part port of the fish yet t one day last winter I put In every eer minute of ot that time trying to land lanu Jan a 3 monster fish Ve We were camped in a houseboat at the mouth of the Indian river just off Jupi Jupiter Jupiter Jupiter ter inlet iJa Fia With Ith a man to row we e started up stream one morning n a a small boat boa t I tI I flung out my m line Une and waited for a astrike astrike astrike strike about five fhe minutes I 1 thought perhaps the time bait balt had been taken so 1 reeled in to put on another one But it seemed as if I had hooked the bottom The line Une came in hi until it wits w s drawn taut directly over the spot whee e it appeared tc te have hae caught a snag I held it at this tension for several minutes thinking the strain might have havea a tendency to lift the object of the bot bottom bottom tom torn when suddenly the snag began to move moc Not swiftly but say Sa at the rate of one ono mile an hour Every E r effort I made ma e had not the slight slightest est effect in bringing the tIme fish nearer to the surface or in any au way ay causing ts gait guit guitto to slacken It Jt hud had apparently made ninde up its ita it mind to travel and travel it did and andI I might as well have tried to hold back backa a steam launch Up stream the went vent for nearly a couple of miles Then Themi It turned and made its way W back for the same sam distance re retracing retracing retracing tracing almost the identical course The rhe water averaged about forty fort feet in depth at this point Well up and down we went until lunch lunchtime lunchtime lunchtime time I sent word to the houseboat to send up something to eat at and stood by bym my m quarry quatT The afternoon wore around and still sun the same tactics were repeated the fish keeping up a steady seesaw be between between tween the up and down stream points my m line all the time remaining in the same position As dusk approached I was to all ap appearances appearances apPearances no nearer r to landing my prize than I had been when I first hooked booked him himI I sent for a lantern My fishing comrade asked me if it I intended to stay out all nil night and I replied that I did dl The lantern lautern was brought and once more my m unknown commenced to seesaw maneuver man with me holding onto the th pole like Jike grim death After a couple l of o hours and when just opposite the time point where our houseboat was anchored without warning there suddenly tame came a quick powerful jerk from the th other end and my line snapped as if it had been a cot cotton cotton cotton ton thread this being done so easily that it looked as if it the fish iad said Im rm tired of playing now Im rm going boing away awa I looked hooked at my watch and found that it was exactly 9 11 There I had been since 9 in the morning And AndI I started for the houseboat a very tired and disgusted man manOf manOf manOf Of course I never knew positively what kind of a creature I had hooked but butI I am inclined to think it was an enormous jew fish However It may ma have hac been as my m fishing companion suggested a huge hUJe sea turtle which weighed something like ike ikea a quarter of a ton I that twelve hours is just about the record time spent trying to land one fish New York Sun |