Fish and Fishing 



hook an O'Shaughnessy No. 7/0 or 8/0 with a six 

 or eight-inch piano-wire leader, in two links, and 

 fastened with a double swivel. 



The bait is either a smelt or sardine from four to 

 six inches in length. To bait it, the hook is 

 entered at the mouth coming out at the gill ; then 

 turned it is embedded in the belly of the fish, so 

 that the entire hook, except the shank, is hidden. 

 The mouth is then wound with a five-inch 

 fine silver wire attached to the hook, which 

 prevents the bait from whirling too rapidly. At 



How to hook the bait. 



times fish of exceptionally large size may be 

 taken on a flying fish. The bait is then cast, and 

 about fifty or sixty feet of line unreeled, and the 

 launch kept moving slowly near the sea- weeds. 



The fishing is best in the morning, from sunrise 

 to midday, and on a flood tide. At the first sound 

 of the reel, the boatman stops the engine, the fish 



at once turning the boat around, rush- 

 Fi^^ '"S ^^^^^ ^^^ there in frantic efforts to 



escape; so powerful are these lunges at 

 times, that the angler is forced to give line, or the 

 tackle goes. If the angler can withstand it, then 

 the rod is too stiff for the code which holds and 

 is most in favor with members of angling clubs. 



