The Sea Trout 



(Cyno scion 

 nebulosus) 



The Spanish 

 Mackerel 



{S comber omorus 

 maculatus) 



Favorite Fish and Fishing 



shrimp and cut bait can also be used. 

 Gaudy and attractive flies are the best for 

 fly-fishing, which can be practiced from 

 piers, a boat, or from the points of inlets. 

 The most popular way of fishing is by troll- 

 ing in the channels, when a spoon with but 

 a single hook should be used. 



The sea-trout is a surface-feeding fish, 

 and a game one. It is not a trout, of course, 

 but is akin to the Northern weakfish, and 

 is called a trout, by courtesy, because of its 

 black spots. It takes the fly because it can- 

 not help it, and will give the angler ample 

 exercise with a light rod before it is landed. 

 Being more high-minded than the sheeps- 

 head, it does its fighting on the surface. 

 The sea-trout is not a bushwhacker nor yet 

 a guerilla. It sometimes runs up the streams 

 to fresh water. 



The Spanish mackerel is not a whit be- 

 hind the sea-trout in gameness, or in its apti- 

 tude or fancy for the feathers and tinsel 

 of an artificial fly. It is the trimmest built 

 fish that swims, and always reminds me of 

 a beautiful racing yacht. It feeds and 

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