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generally as late as it is comfortable to sit 

 in a punt. 



Sea-fishing attracts or repels according 

 as the charms or discomforts of the sea the 

 more impress the fisherman. The draw- 

 backs of deep-water angling have been 

 mentioned, but there is ample field for 

 angling in salt water without these. Shore- 

 fishing is often exceedingly satisfactory if 

 one but have the skill to make a fairly 

 long cast ; while estuary- and harbor-fish- 

 ing have much the same charms as lake- 

 fishing, with the great abundance of game 

 which the sea affords. Around New York 

 the opportunities that salt water affords for 

 skilful and delicate angling are widely ap- 

 preciated, and the advantages gained both 

 as to sport and to success by the use of 

 fine tackle are more and more recognized. 

 Among the delights of salt-water angling 

 is the variety of fish that may be taken, 

 even in a single day's sport. It is impos- 

 sible to even enumerate those ordinarily 

 sought for. Those denizens of the two 

 oceans and the Gulf familiar to the readers 

 of angling journals must number a hun- 

 dred or more species. Quite a large num- 

 ber of them, not generally recognized as 

 anadromous, push their way, in search of 

 food or for other reasons, into brackish or 

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