Favorite Fish and Fishing 



Both are game-fishes of high degree, and 

 the angler will have all he can attend to 

 after hooking one on light tackle. As food 

 fishes they are excellent. I prefer to fish 

 from the sand-spits at the mouths of inlets, 

 or if near a pier to fish from a boat moored 

 alongside, as the fish are not so likely to see 

 one, and they are more easily landed. 



Bait Fishing Ordinary black bass tackle is quite suit- 



able for either fish, with fly or bait. 

 Braided linen lines are preferable, however, 

 to silk ones, as the latter soon rot in salt 

 water. A gut leader about four feet long 

 and snelled hooks, Nos. i to 3, are all right 

 for bait-fishing. The best bait is a small 

 sardine, anchovy or mullet, though the 

 casting spoon, with a single hook, or a 

 pearl squid of small size may be used if 

 kept in constant motion on the surface. 



Fiy-Fishing For fly-fishing a single fly is sufficient, of 



any bright pattern, with some gilt or silver 

 tinsel on the body, as the silver doctor, tied 

 on No. 3 hooks. A long-handled landing- 

 net is indispensable. 



The kingfish — not the fish known by that 

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