[75] “The principall sport to take a Pike is to take a Goose or Gander or Duck, take one of the Pike Lines as I have showed you before; tye the line under the left wing and over the right wing, and about the bodie as a man weareth his belt; turne the Goose off into a Pond where Pikes are; there is no doubt of sport with much pleasure betwixt the Goose and the Pike. It is the greatest pleasure that a noble Gentleman in Shropshire doth give his friends for entertainment. There is no question among all this fishing but we shall take a brace of good Pikes.” [76] For a full description of this method, see _Sport on Land and Water_, by F. G. Griswold, privately printed (New York, 1916), and _The Game Fishes of the World_, by C. F. Holder (London, 1913). To the kite, which is of the ordinary 28-inch type, is allowed 700 feet of old fishing line from off a reel; the fisherman’s line is tied to the kite about 20 feet from the bait with a piece of cotton twine. When a Tuna fish takes the bait the cotton line breaks, and the kite is either reeled in or falls into the sea. The Santa Catalina fishing, with its records of enormous Tuna, of Sword fish (the largest 463 lbs.), sometimes fighting for 14 hours, sounding 48 times, and leading the launch for a distance of 29 miles, and of Giant Bass weighing 493 lbs., fills a British angler with envious despair, a despair which is heightened when one reads that the regulation tackle prescribed by the Tuna Club is, or was not long ago, a sixteen ounce Rod and a line not over No. 24! In Mr. Zane Grey’s enthralling volume (_Tales of Fishes_ (London, 1919), p. 39) we read of a swordfish, that “when he sounded, he had pulled thirteen hundred feet off my reel, although we were chasing him (in a motor boat) full speed all the time”! [77] See the excellent monograph on “Kite-Fishing,” by Henry Balfour, in _Essays and Studies, presented to Wm. Ridgeway_ (Cambridge, 1913), p. 23, where he regards the invention as ancient and probably proto-Malayan. This hook was usually made of wood and the claw of a bird. Cf. _Man_, 1912, Art. 4, and case 42 in Ethnographical Collection at the British Museum. [78] De Mortillet, pp. 245, 249: “_De tous les engins la ligne est le plus simple, et celui qui a du être le premier employé._” He sums up his surview of the world from China to Peru, by “_La pêche à la ligne est la pêche la plus repandue parmi les nations sauvages._” [79] _Op. cit._, “The Net is known to almost all men as far as history can tell.” But Darwin, in _The Cruise of the Beagle_, found the Fuegians without Nets or traps of any kind. Their only methods of fishing were with Spears, and a baited hair line without any hook.