X. repeatedly said that he had never caught fish on this side of the island, Since I broke my line, we trolled' about half an hour when X. got busy; he landed one pompano fand: two bass in a few minutes. I never got a strike whilst he was doing it, We then found very deep water close in to the rocks, some places steep with cliffs, We ran only about 100 fect off shore along! this place when I suddenly got a strike. He took a lot of line before T thought I should try and stop him even then T put on little pressure as he was going so fast. At Inst I got. him slowed down with about 1,000 feet out. I had the Taunch go astern so that T could Yecover some of the line; the fish was still going along slowly. T must have got in about 100 feet when away he went again so T put on all I thought the line would stand fas I hadn't much left, and as not know what fish it was I was afraid of him sounding and getting the line out as previously. Also X. me to wind him in, Whilst T was giving him all the pressure I could and worrying him, he gave a series of very powerful Jerks—he was evidently trying to get vid of the hook, so I eased up
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