Fishin old school!

[Mac2]

At a saltwater pier in San Diego,

I watched an elderly Chinese fellow fishing mackerel from a pier in San Diego. He had three rods, a chair and a clever idea. Two rods were set in rod holders that attached to the rails of the pier and were set up near the chair, the third rod also had a holder, but was attached some fifteen feet away. After baiting the three hooks and lowering them halfway to the bottom, he walked back to the distant rod and reached in his jacket pocket. He had a paper clip tied onto a coil of mason's twine. He slipped the line of the rod into the clip which was between the reel and the first eye on the rod, uncoiling the twine as he walked back to the chair, tying the twine to the railing and sitting. When he got a bite on the distant rod, he simply yanked the twine and set the hook. He caught more fish that day than anyone else.