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is to be used. Any of the natural baits will be 

 attractive ; a piece of porgy or menhaden, clams 

 or a bit of shedder crab, will entice them, and the 

 bait will be taken at the moment it touches the 

 water. It is very exciting and exhilarating when 

 trolling with light black bass tackle among a 

 thick school of mackerel using a squid of feath- 

 ers, a spinner, or casting among them a light fly, 

 preferably a white miller, which seems to have a 

 special attraction for them. 



The other fishes of the mackerel family seldom 

 come close to the ocean shore, or visit the estu- 

 aries, and when caught by the fishermen, it is 

 usually effected by trolling with metal squids or 

 live baits. 



The frigate mackerel (Auxis thazara) rarely 

 ranges as far north as Cape Cod, but when it 

 does come, it is in vast schools or shoals ; yet, 

 being a coarse fish and of poor value as food, it 

 is seldom pursued. 



Two of the so-called "little tunnies" (Gymno- 

 sardd) sometimes get as far north as Cape Cod ; 

 but they may be classed with the frigate mackerel, 

 being equally valueless as food. The great tunny, 

 the " tuna " of the Pacific coast, is occasionally 

 found near Newfoundland ; but it is essentially a 

 fish of the semi-tropical seas. The albacore is 

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