Show FISH CATCH FISHERMEN fr for trout on a small river the writer once hooked hooke salmon Imm His rod and tackle being ally aJi to deal with the hing net tT r he soon lOOn found that r h yeas Ia d playing him not he the thet nt mt t stop top th the fran c rushes ru ruh he and ini had hall to run practically lIy tr tr Iri after It The result as s might be expected was disaster The east cast parted and the salmon departed Many a fisherman has had similar ex experience experience and sometimes painful and even dangerous ones Fishing In Ina a boat oft on the Florida coast Mr lr J A Bren Brent t n hooked a monster he fish known in the gulf gul as the silver sliver king The great fish went straight oft off tow towIng towIng towing Ing the boat behind It the wind got up and so did the sea night came on and the tarpon showed no sign of giving In But the angler was made of stern stuff and In spite of imminent danger of swamping he stuck to his captor and nd eventually landed it six miles away from the spot where he had hooked it This fish fi h weighed pounds Even more exciting was the engage engagement engagement engagement ment between Mr C R Scudder and a gigantic tuna which he hooked oft of the California alifornia coast The tuna did as he liked with Mr Scudders boat for tor seven hours during which time It towed him hima a distance of nearly twenty miles The creature weighed eighteen pounds over the hundredweight One of the fiercest wickedest t fish that swims Is IB the barracuda found from the th Gulf of Mexico down to the Brazilian Brazi lan coast It possesses n a fearful l equipment of teeth and has large black eyes No negro Will bathe where barracudas abound That famous naturalist Mr C F Holder Holdar once harpooned a large barracuda oft off of the Florida reef which towed his ding ding round and round in circles and very nearly swamped it Eventually Ev when brought close to the boat it seized the theo oars o rs in its teeth actually snapping pieces places oft off them th m The green moray of the Bermudas looks like a but is larger and of a bright green color Its vi vf 1 is so proverbial that when whan the native nathe fishermen hook one they at once mice cut the line On one occasion when au an English sportsman instated insisted t d on bringing one into the boat the awful atut brut snapped three fingers clean off the negro boatman The power po er and ami ferocity of or the ham hammerhead hammerhead hammerhead i shark is III almost incredible Mr Holder above mentioned once hooked a large hammerhead oft off Santa Catalina island which simply ran away aVa with him and over and over again nearly pulled the boat under the water If Ii other boats had not come conic to his as assistance assistance he be would have been forced to cut the th line but it was not until five boats were pulling together that the brute could be turned shoreward A horrible incident was reported some little time back in a South rican pa paper paper paper per A man was fishing for tiger fish In the river and hooked a ascent scent game fish fIah In playing it he came too near the edge of the bank when a crocodile croc lying In the still water under large specimen of one of these t a ledge I nicked flicked him in with its ite tall tail and devoured him To come nearer home a curious inci incident Incident Incident dent took look place pl e in Cruden bay in September Sep September September three years eAra ago A fisherman plying his rod roc about a mile from shore had a heavy bite bitt and pulling in was amused to find that he be had hooked not nota a neb fish but bat a bird birda great northern diver r The TIe bird blvd made a furious resistance and just as the fisherman berman ft got it close to the boat OAt suddenly flew fiew in his face with a force that neatly nearly hurled him hII overboard With Ith a second dash it split open the back of hia head bead and with a third made a bad gash h in his forehead At last hist it was killed with a stretcher stretch r and found to measure over three feet fet t across the wings The angler had bat ha toso to togo too go so o to a doctor d to get his wounds sen se wn up I |