Show CATCHING THE OCTOPUS it la is no trick to catch them they are pulled out with hook and lice from the deep p waters of the sound just like flab and are found on the bottoms of the fishing banks banke said eaid a seat tle tie fisherman look at this con nick raising the slimy muss mom of lew legs and pointing to a perfect counter part of a par parrots rotAs black beak his mouth just like a parrots only much larger and more powerful when once those chose jaws awn fasten on the bait they never let go until landed on the deck of the boat no they seldom give us much trouble that is part of a greek fish fis hermans ermanto early education taught the men how to handle them safely the only care necessary to is to prevent their fastening their suckers on the sides and bottom of the boat if by accident of carelessness they succeed in doing so the octopus to Is safe for the I 1 suction notion of those cup like disks is so great that nothing but the knife can dislodge them and as they cant be reached they get away the men know by the weight on the line and its action when an octopus is in hooked then by means of poles the line is in kept away from the boat and watch ing a favorable opportunity with the assistance of boat hooks the follow fellow is IN suddenly yanked on board and left to thrash its life away on deck of course the men have learned to keep carefully out of reach of its tentacles on a clear day and in clear weather one can see an octopus at great depths their bodies usually lie its hidden bidden under shelving rocks leaving only one or more of these long feelers visible moving cautiously back and forth by baiting a hook with a white rag and dropping it close by it to is fun to watch their movements they Jre pretend tend not to see the bait believing it to is living prey they will advance their feelers inch by inch and gradually their body and retreat agin as if to draw on their intended victim playing tho th bait back and forth ex cites their cupidity and when ortle fied of the result the beast makes a spring for the bait that for lightning like speed beats anything on record of course it fastens its razor like double back action bisk beak into the rag and holds on like grim death allowing itself to be pulled out of the water rather than let KO go |