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a half dozen to bite at the artificial squid. Persons have 

 devoted their special attention to finding some line that 

 would satisfy their dainty views, but with only moder- 

 ate and partial success. They are wonderfully active 

 and powerful, leaping from the water in long graceful 

 curves like the mythical fishes of " Fairyland " and not 

 like trout, salmon and blue fish, which either makes a 

 quick snap or splash on the surface of the water, or jump 

 a short distance out and up above it, falling back on the 

 tails or sides, as often as on their heads. But the Spanish 

 Mackerel pursue their prey, the small bony fish or moss- 

 bunkers- and the spearing, with such velocity, that they 

 throw themselves in a long arc out of water, when the 

 latter rush to the surface and leap from it in their frantic 

 efforts to escape. By this peculiarity, they can be 

 distinguished from their coarser brethren the blue fish, 

 and may be followed with the sail boat. On the South 

 coast of Long Island, we have seen them " breaking in 

 this way over miles square of water and have sailed by 

 millions of them. The most successful troll is a squid 

 made of red bone and with this as many as a hundred 

 have occasionally been caught by the anglers being on 

 the ground or rather water early in the morning. This 

 red bone has a hook run through it in the ordinary way, 

 and it is trolled behind a sail boat precisely in the same 

 manner that blue fish are trolled. They are probably 

 the finest fish for the table that are drawn from the salt 

 or the fresh water and they are worthy of all the labor 

 and patience required to catch them. 



WEAK-FISH AND KING- FISH. The latter of these are 

 exceedingly the better fish to eat, and are deserving of 

 the angler's attention whenever they can be found, which 

 is only in a few of the salt water bays or inlets of our 

 coast. They both take clam bait and the weak-fish will 



