410 SHOAL-WATER SEA FISHING. 



For Sheep's-head, again, boats are generally fitted out 

 expressly, as this large powerful fish and heavy biter requires 

 stronger tackle than is needed in the capture of any of the other 

 species. 



The ordinary booty, therefore, of the shoal-water sea-angler, 

 is confined, nine times out of ten, to the Weak Fish, the King 

 Fish, the Striped Bass, and sometimes the Black Fish, although 

 this latter difi'ers somewhat from the others in his accustomed 

 haunts ; and for these, all of which may be taken with the same 

 tackle, and nearly with the same baits, he constantly goes 

 prepared. 



The best localities for this sport are so numerous, and so well 

 known to the guides and professional fishermen of every neigh- 

 bourhood, that it is needless to enter into a particular narrative 

 of their whereabouts, since it is very little likely that a stranger 

 would attempt to find them unassisted by a guide, and to the 

 practised and inexperienced angler of each region they are of 

 course well known. 



