About eight
p.m.
The boat itself is so cranky , and the fish themselves are generally so full of life and fight , that there is a good deal of risk and excitement , after all , about this kind of sport . It is no uncommon thing for an upset to occur in the risk and glorious uncertainty of capturing a large , gamy fellow who makes a stubborn fight . The three canoes gradually separated , and to judge by the frequent reports of the guns they were having a good deal of sport . About eight p.m. they were all back at Sagasta-weekee , and each had a different story to tell . Frank had over a score of very fine fish , and had had only one fall into the water . He had hooked in his gaff a large , vigorous fish , and was making the most careful efforts to hang on to him and to lift him over the side of the canoe . Just as he had him nicely out of the water , the fish , by a sudden furious struggle , wrenched himself off the hook and fell back in the water .