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of your Hue to a cleet iu the steru of the boat, theu whirl out 

 the squid to the Avhole length of your line, and play it with 

 both hands alternately. The fish will strike itself, and is to be 

 hauled in with a regular even pull, never jerked, nor yet 

 slacked for an instant, for if it be, the fish will disengage him- 

 self almost certainly. 



When you tack your boat, if the water be shoal, haul in your 

 line, else shall you foul it iu the sea-weeds. 



When you have hooked your fish, raise your squid with the 

 hook uppermost, and a slight shake shall cast him into the 

 bottom of the boat. 



Babylon, Islip, and Quogue, on Long Island, in Fire Island 

 inlet, and Pine inlet, Shrewsbury, Squam-Beach, and Barnegat, 

 in New Jersey, the estuaries of the rivers in Connecticut, and 

 the tide-ways in Boston harbour, are all favourite grounds for 

 Blue fishing. 



To conclude : there is no pleasanter summer day^s amuse- 

 ment than a merry cruise after the Blue Fish, no pleasanter 

 close to it than the clam-bake, the chowder, and the broiled 

 Blue Fish, lubricated with champagne, learnedly frappee, and 

 temperately taken, no unpleasant medicine. What adds most 

 to the zest of such a day, is the presence of the charming sex, 

 this being one of the few sports of field or flood in which they 

 cau femininely, and therefore fittingly, participate. For the 

 rest, you may take Blue Fish, say the philosophers, of thirty 

 pounds' weight, though I doubt it. Of four and five pounds 

 you shall catch him surely ; if of eight, rejoice ; if of ten, sing 

 pseans, — for that is a triumph. 



