Favorite Fish and Fishing 



equally well, perhaps more, the wary bream 

 or crapple of the fresh waters. Better still, 

 with suitable tackle the acknowledged game 

 fish, par excellence, of America, the black 

 bass, will yield him sport galore. 

 T^^.^^f^?^" The lover of sheepsheading will find his 



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gus probatoceph- quarry about the pilmg of old wharves or 

 ^^^^^ about the oyster reefs, while his bait — fid- 



dler crabs — abound in myriads on the 

 beaches. I once saw the catch of a man 

 who took three hundred on a single tide 

 from Summerlin's cattle wharf at Punta- 

 rassa. He should have been indicted, tried 

 and convicted by a jury of honest anglers 

 and sentenced to a term of imprisonment 

 by a judge of fair sport. The sheepshead, 

 with its human-like incisors, is very adroit 

 at nibbling the bait from the hook, and 

 must be circumvented by a quick, sharp turn 

 of the wrist upon the least provocation or 

 intimation of its intentions; this will drive 

 the hook into Its well-paved jaw six times 

 in ten. When hooked, the sheepshead 

 makes strenuous efforts to reach the bottom, 

 which is very trying to a light rod. The 

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