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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Glad I didn't know you heard me go out," he remarked. "If I had I might not have had the courage to come back. Well, I've learned my lesson. From now on I'll try not to give you fellows any reason to find fault with me." Medrick Shoal yielded a good harvest. About eighteen hundred pounds of hake lay in the pens on the Barracouta when they started for home at ten o'clock.
"I'd like to go out with you to the trawls, Jim, to-morrow morning," said Percy. "Glad to have you," responded Spurling, heartily. Two hours before light they were gliding out of the cove in the Barracouta, bound for Medrick Shoal, four miles to the eastward. "Percy," said Jim as the sloop rolled rhythmically on the long Atlantic swells, "I want to tell you something.
Bait was stripped from the hooks; fish on the trawl were devoured until only heads and backbones were left; and the robbers themselves were caught in increasing numbers. At last their depredations became unbearable. Jim and Percy had made a set one foggy morning on Medrick Shoal. When the trawl came up it was a sight to make angels weep. For yards at a stretch the hooks were bare or bitten off.
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