Popular Salt=Water Game Fish 



fascination of the sport, the fresh wind, the rushing 

 boat, with the silvery bait flashing from wave to 

 wave sixty or more feet behind. Soon the smash- 

 ing rush of the fish hterally tears away hne despite 

 every effort to save it, and the angler lies down 

 holding on for dear life, his arms wrenched and 

 chafed by the gamy fish, full to the very end of 

 vigor and irrepressible animation. 

 !nd"Hookr The tackle, therefore, must be very 

 stout and able to resist such tugging. 

 The lines should be 300 feet of strong Cuttyhunk, 

 No. 15 to 18, with a sprout hook, 5/0, snelled 

 with wire. If the fish are running large, a larger 

 hook should be used. 



Heaving and hauling, as its name implies, is 

 when the angler, standing on the beach or in the 

 breakers, whirls his heavy gig about his head, and 

 casts in far into the sea. No rod is used, the work 



being done by hand throw, the hands 

 Heaving protected by stout woollen gloves. Hav- 

 Hauling ing hooked the fish, he puts the line over 



his shoulder, walks up the beach, drag- 

 ging his prize after him to the shore. This prac- 

 tice is only possible on exposed sandy beaches, like 

 the Jersey shore, Montauk, and other places. This 

 method of fishing requires much practice. Three 

 important things govern the use of this tackle, 

 i. e., the squid must be heaved far enough to 

 straighten, maybe, one hundred yards of line, and 

 the line must run out freely and smoothly; also the 

 hand-over-hand recovery must start so soon as 

 the squid has touched the water. The prowling 

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