| One spring day an Illinois Conservation Officer watched a fishermanat Chicago s Montrose Harbor battle a huge coho salmon he hadhooked on a worm. After 15 minutes, the fisherman had the salmonat his feet, iaying played out on its side by the Montrose breakwater.The fisherman reached down, grabbed the line just up from thehook, and started to draw the heavy fish toward him. Just then thecoho gave a final flop--and wriggled free. The fisherman s knot hadpulled loose at the hook! "That was about the saddest thing I d ever seen," the wardenreported, "I m sure that coho was 20 or 22 pounds, the biggest fishthat guy had ever seen. Tears welled up in his eyes when he watchedthat saJmon rorl away." Another day a fly fisherman cast to the largest bone fish he d everseen on the flats at Great Exuma in the Bahamas. The fish inhaledthe fly and took off on a typical, lightning-fast bone fish run. Fly linezipped through the guides; then came the backing; then everythingwent slack. The knot connecting the fly line to the backing line didn thold--and not only did the saddened fisherman lose a prize bonefish, but he also lost a $16 fly line. |
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