A Fishing Experience off
p. 149 · Read in the full issue
Pitcairn Is.
LONE or with one companion in l a small canoe on the open sea, fishing with a line sometimes to 200 fathoms long, would be a ique experience for many. But at is the way the Pitcairn anders obtain their fish. Usually a Thursday the men will go out their strong little craft, one or o in each canoe. tn this way Freddy and Len, ther and son, were fishing on mrsday, October 22, southward of e island. Some distance away, st within earshot, was Christie, sy with his line and hooks.
Suddenly, with a crunching sound id a bump that startled father id son, a gaping hole was torn in eir canoe near the bow. A shark id attacked the boat. As they Dod terror-stricken, water rushed through a hole bigger than a an’s head. The canoe was sink g, while the monster lay in the iter.
But the shark disappeared as the en turned their canoe over and t on top of it. Christie heard ieir shouts but took no notice till sn put his hat on the end of his ng fishing spear and waved it. He ok them in tow back to Bounty