Once hooked he goes off to sea and will tow your boat maybe fifteen miles; that is to say, he partly tows the boat, but the heavy motor launch must also use its power to keep up or the line will at once be snapped.

The tuna belongs to the mackerel family, is built like a white-head torpedo, and for gameness, speed and endurance is hard to beat.

Only the pala of the South Pacific Seas, also a mackerel, may, according to Louis Becke, be his rival.

Becke indeed claims it to be the gamest of all fish.

But its manoeuvres are different from a tuna's and similar to those of the tarpon.