We agreed to go in a launch, a large launch--to be exact,
the largest in the town. We could have gone in row boats,
but a row boat is a poor thing to fish from. Kernin said
that in a row boat it is impossible properly to "_play_"
your fish. The side of the boat is so low that the fish
is apt to leap over the side into the boat when half
"played." Popley said that there is no comfort in a row
boat. In a launch a man can reach out his feet and take
it easy. Charlie Jones said that in a launch a man could
rest his back against something, and Morse said that in
a launch a man could rest his neck. Young inexperienced
boys, in the small sense of the word, never think of
these things. So they go out and after a few hours their
necks get tired; whereas a group of expert fishers in a
launch can rest their backs and necks and even fall asleep
during the pauses when the fish stop biting.
Anyway all the "boys" agreed that the great advantage of
a launch would be that we could get a _man_ to take us.
By that means the man could see to getting the worms,
and the man would be sure to have spare lines, and the
man could come along to our different places--we were
all beside the water--and pick us up.
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