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 SCHNAPPER AND BLACK BREAM 



Difference of Surroundings Little Freshwater Fishing in 

 Australia Sydney Harbour An Outing after Schnapper 

 Fishing in Broken Bay Fallen Among Sharks Schnapper 

 and Sundries Rods Unsuitable Losing a Big Fish Bright 

 Colouring of Australian Fishes Middle Harbour Black 

 Bream in Still Waters " Berley " Blackfish Rods More 

 Popular in Queensland Possible Legacy of " Redspinner " 

 Flathead and Jewfish Sharks and Catfish in Moreton Bay 

 Calm-water Fishing Rock-fishing Dreadful Climbs A Re- 

 lation of Thackeray " Cungevoi " A Caution about Sea- 

 urchins Leather Jackets Failure to catch Hobart Trum- 

 peter and Fitzroy Perch Shooting Kangaroo and Duck A 

 Queensland Estuary "and Quinine. 



FROM the open waters off Mevagissey to the 

 sheltered creeks of Sydney Harbour and Botany 

 Bay is a far cry ; but the year 1895 found me, who- 

 the previous summer had blinked from conger- 

 grounds up at the Great Bear, fishing for a change 

 under the Southern Cross. The work done by 

 energetic acclimatisation societies is gradually 

 repairing the meanness with which Nature has 

 stocked Australia's rivers with fish. It is doubt- 

 ful whether they will ever afford such sport as 

 the waters of Tasmania or New Zealand, where 

 trout grow to dimensions, which we at home 

 associate rather with salmon. There is, however,. 



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