24 SEA FISH OF TRINIDAD 
plumes,” “carangue grasse,” and “carangue France,” and it 
is the two first varieties I wish to specially mention, as they 
are the largest and strongest. The “camard’’ may bite at 
any time of the day, but as a rule the “gros-yeux”’ is only 
taken in the early morning or just about sundown and about 
an hour or two after. As they are surface fish, and come 
often to the top of the water to gambol and hunt sardines, 
they are nearly always fished for with trolling lines. In 
taking the bait, the “camard”’ or “gros-yeux’’ does not 
finick about but hits it “one time,” and. for this the fisher 
must be prepared, as he will in all probability take out twenty 
to thirty fathoms of the slack line at his first rush when he 
charges for the bottom, and it matters not if he gets there as 
he fights like a bulldog the whole time, no getting behind 
rocks for him. He is now preparing for a second rush, but- 
ting with his head, or “ baie téte’’ as the Creoles callit. The 
fisherman must keep a steady but not too strong a strain on 
the line all the time, that is, must feel him (with a reel the 
check willbesufficient). If he feelsthe fish softening, haul in, 
but always stand by for fresh rushes, of which there will 
probably be five or six, and if you are a hand-liner and have 
got all your line in the boat, be careful when you get on the 
wire, for that is the critical time both for your fingers and 
your chances of landing your fish, for if he is not quite ex- 
hausted he will make another rush, the wire will cut up your 
fingers, Mr. Cavalli will break it, and then “ Aio Punch,” for 
he fights to the bitter end, and never gives in till practically 
drowned, and even then he is still butting with his head. 
He is such a gallant fish, and fights so like a “ proper gentle- 
man,” that the true sportsman, though he hates to lose him, 
must regret that he is in the bottom of the boat. He is the 
“Du Guesclin” of Trinidad fish. Most amateurs use gloves 
when trolling to save their fingers from being cut by the wire, 
but this necessarily does away with their fineness of touch. 
I have previously referred to the presence of the small bird 
called “mauve” being a sure sign of cavalli. This refers to 
the “camard.’”’ There is its counterpart, a bird of similar 
size, but darker, which comes at dusk, called in Creole ‘‘mache 
carabache,’’ and betokens the presence of the carangue 
