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single genus and a single family, and as such has a 

 wide distribution over the Atlantic and Indian 

 Oceans, and of late years has been very abundant 

 on the New England coast. As a rod as well as 

 food fish, it is highly esteemed ; but those anglers 

 who seek this blue leaper are apt to miss the 

 maximum of delight in his capture, if they fail to 

 anchor and " to chum " and " still fish." Cast 

 upon the main handfuls of chopped menhaden, 

 or, better still, pour upon it a gallon or two of 

 crude menhaden oil, and with an eight-ounce rod, 

 a number twelve Cuttyhunk line, a ductile wire 

 leader and snood, a single hook with a bit of 

 menhaden for bait, and the result will be the 

 embodiment of angling delight. 



Or, if you are venturesome, speed your catboat, 

 when a wholesale breeze prevails, along the outer 

 line of the breakers, and cast your metal squid over 

 their crest and into their hollows. Watch sharp ! 

 Have a brave and steady hand at the tiller, for 

 about you must go at the moment the seething 

 nose of your little craft touches the rise of a 

 breaker. But what thought of danger, when the 

 blue gleam of a ten- pounder is flashed in the air, 

 and the mighty pull and desperate surge is felt ! 



Not the least of salt-water pleasure is angling 

 for the young bluefish, commonly known as 

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