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Updated: May 20, 2025
And for bonefish, that rare fighter known to so few anglers, the three-six tackle a three-ounce tip and six-thread line is just the ideal rig to make the sport exceedingly difficult, fascinating, and thrilling. Old bonefishermen almost invariably use heavy tackle stiff rods and twelve-or fifteen-thread lines. They have their arguments, and indeed these are hard nuts to crack.
It never appeared an impossible feat to catch Marlin swordfish on a nine-thread line, nor sailfish on a six-thread line. But those lines are too light. My business is to tell stories. If I can be so fortunate as to make them thrilling and pleasing, for the edification of thousands who have other business and therefore less leisure, then that is a splendid thing for me.
The season of 1918 we hooked about fifty bonefish on three-six tackles that is, three-ounce tips and six-thread lines and we landed fourteen of them. I caught nine and R. C. caught five. R. C.'s eight-pound fish justified our contention and crowned our efforts. To date, in all my experience, I consider this bonefish achievement the most thrilling, fascinating, difficult, and instructive.
A lanyard of six-thread manila, put across double between holes in the top of its sides, formed a rope bridle or bail. To the middle of this bail Jim tied the thirty-foot painter with a clove hitch. Then he dropped the tub over the bow. "Pull in your oar, Perce!" he called out. Percy obeyed gladly. A heavy sea struck the dory. She reared, shot back, and started to swing sidewise.
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