BAIT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 One bait was down forty fathoms.
2 Then he baited another line and left it coiled in the shade of the bow.
3 No flying fish broke the surface and there was no scattering of bait fish.
4 He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it.
5 It had a wire leader and a medium-sized hook and he baited it with one of the sardines.
6 Then too, remember he hasn't eaten since he took the bait and he is huge and needs much food.
7 During the day he had taken the sack that covered the bait box and spread it in the sun to dry.
8 There were two from each bait he had severed and the two from the bait the fish had taken and they were all connected.
9 After it is light, he thought, I will work back to the forty-fathom bait and cut it away too and link up the reserve coils.
10 He kept them straighter than anyone did, so that at each level in the darkness of the stream there would be a bait waiting exactly where he wished it to be for any fish that swam there.
11 Here there were concentrations of shrimp and bait fish and sometimes schools of squid in the deepest holes and these rose close to the surface at night where all the wandering fish fed on them.
12 Each bait hung head down with the shank of the hook inside the bait fish, tied and sewed solid and all the projecting part of the hook, the curve and the point, was covered with fresh sardines.
13 The tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps after the bait.
14 If they don't travel too fast I will get into them, the old man thought, and he watched the school working the water white and the bird now dropping and dipping into the bait fish that were forced to the surface in their panic.
15 Each line, as thick around as a big pencil, was looped onto a green-sapped stick so that any pull or touch on the bait would make the stick dip and each line had two forty-fathom coils which could be made fast to the other spare coils so that, if it were necessary, a fish could take out over three hundred fathoms of line.