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FISHING IN AMERICAN WATERS. 



or a bone or metal squid, and when hooked in trolling will 

 leap ten feet above water several times, and show the most 

 vigorous play of any fish belonging to the mackerel tribes. 

 It is said that small ones, of from ten to fifteen pounds 

 weight and from thirty inches to four feet in length, are fre- 

 quently taken with rod and reel, gimp snells, and strong 

 hooks, in the bay rivers along the southern shores of Florida. 

 A fish of such rare edible qualities and great sport is worthy 

 a long journey to capture with rod and reel. Small mullets 



CROSS-BARRED MULLET. 



form a favorite bait for both trolling and still -baiting for 

 any of the surface-biting game fishes of the Atlantic coast. 

 A mullet rigged by pinning his jaws together with a hook, 

 as here shown, breathes freely through the undisturbed gills, 

 and will live several hours, whether trolling or still-fishing. 



SECTION THIKD. 



THE GROUPER. Epinephalus, St. 



This fish weighs from fifteen to seventy-five pounds; or 

 those which are sold in the Southern markets range be- 



