426 LOCALITIES. 



DEEP SEA FISHING. 



The Cod_, the Haddock, the Whiting, the Hake, the Halibut, 

 and the Flounder, may be caught everywhere north of Massa- 

 chusetts ; and from Boston to the eastward, parties of pleasm'e 

 are made constantly to take them. On the Great Banks they 

 are most abundant, but in Boston Bay great sport is not 

 uncommon, nor is it unusual for a single boat to bring in its 

 fifteen or twenty quintals of these fine fish. 



The whole sport consists in the frequency of the biting, and 

 the size of the fish, which, for the most part, varies from ten to 

 fifteen pounds ; for though they are sharp and voracious biters, 

 they require no play when hooked, ofi'ering only an inert resist- 

 ance, and a dead hea^y pull. 



Fifty yards of stout hempen line, two small-sized Cod-hooks, 

 baited with the mud-clam, the menhaden, or where it can be 

 procured, the capehn, and a pound sinker, is all your apparatus. 



With this, in any eastern water, you may rest assured of 

 returning home with a boat-load of fish, a set of very weary 

 limbs, a pair of very sore hands, and an enormous appetite, of 

 which, mejudice, the first and the last, alone are desirable. 



If you be content with these, fair or gentle reader, go out for 

 deep-sea fishing when and where you will, provided you ask me 



