LOCALITIES OF THE SPOET. 40U 



SHOAL-WATER SEA FISHING. 



This sport, which is pursued with great eagerness by many 

 of our city anglers, lias for its scene the various channels, bays, 

 shoals, reefs and mud-flats of our harbours, the great land- 

 locked lagoons along our coasts, and many places in the East 

 River, and Long Island, as well as in the estuaries of all the larger 

 rivers from the capes of the Chesapeake to Massachusetts Bay. 



It is pursued in boats, which are rowed from spot to spot, and 

 anchored over the various reefs and shoals, or in the vicinity of 

 sunken reefs, about which these fish are supposed to abound, 

 according to the state aad variation of the tides. The fish 

 usually taken are the Squeteaque or Weak Fish, the Barb or 

 King Fish, the Tautog or Black Fish, the Striped Bass, the 

 Sea Bass occasionally, the Sheep's-head, the Big Porgee, and 

 sometimes the Drum. 



For the Sea Bass, however, and the Porgee, longer excursions 

 are generally necessary, as the best fishing for these is on the 

 outer sea-banks, in the Atlantic, whither steamers and sloops 

 occasionally proceed with companies for a day's amusement. 

 In these, however, there is most frequently more fun than 

 fishing, although sometimes very good sport is had, and greater 

 quantities of fish arc taken. 



