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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: finish, and all the advantages are on his side. The current is
terribly strong. If he makes up his mind to go downstream to the
sea, the only thing you can do is to hold him by main force; and
then it is ten to one that the hook tears out or the leader breaks.
It is not in human nature for one man to watch another handling a
fish in such a place without giving advice. "Keep the tip of your
rod up. Don’t let your reel overrun. Stir him up a little, he ‘s
sulking. Don’t let him ‘jig,’ or you‘ll lose him. You ‘re playing
him too hard. There, he ‘s going to jump again. Drop your tip.
Stop him, quick! he ‘s going down the rapid!"
Of course the man who is playing the salmon does not like this. If
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