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and a half pounds, and one of eight 

 pounds. But this was uncommon good 

 luck, as far as large ones are concerned. 

 I used to go up nearly every afternoon, 

 and there were but one or two days that 

 I failed to get from one to six mus- 

 calonge. 



Everybody caught them last Fall. 

 There were a large number caught 

 around the docks at Lakewood. A gen- 

 tleman from Pittsbiirg caught one that 

 weighed twenty-seven pounds, near 



where I caught the thirty-five pound 

 lunge. It was his first fish, and he 

 would not have sold it for $5. 00 a pound. 

 In the bay, above Lakewood, thirteen 

 boats were fishing one day, and they 

 caught, in all, sixty-one muscalonge. 

 They would run five to six pounds 

 a-piece. Lakewood is a good place for 

 a stranger to go to fish, as you are sure 

 of getting good boats and the right 

 kind of bait. 



