Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1902 — Why Big Fish Get Away. [ARTICLE]

Why Big Fish Get Away.

It fs perfectly plain that large Ash are more apt to escape than small ones. Tljfelr weight and activity, combined with the increased trickiness and resourcefulness of age and experience, of course, greatly Increase their ability to tear out the hook, and enhance the danger that their antics will expose a fatal weakfltSs in hook, leader, line or rod. Another presumption, which must be regretfully mentioned, arises from the fact that in many cases It is the encounter with a large fish which causes such excitement, and such distraction or perversion of judgment, as leads the fisherman to do the wrong thing, or fail to do the right thing, at the critical Instant.—Grover Cleveland, In Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.