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White Perch: (Roccus Americanus.) 



White perch are game fighters and offer great sport 

 to anglers throughout their range. While not as promi- 

 nently mentioned as some game fishes, they are an impor- 

 tant species, and deserve greater notice from the angling 

 public. 



Deep-Sea Fishing: 



While the foregoing list of fishes includes our most im- 

 portant inland game fishes, there are found in the ocean's 

 briny deep large and small game fish beyond the power of 

 our enumeration. In the ocean are found not only the larg- 

 est fish, but the largest of all living creatures, greatly 

 larger than any shore animal recorded in history, and 

 while the land surface of this old mundane sphere has 

 been pretty thoroughly examined from pole to pole, there 

 are depths of the seas yet unexplored and monsters of the 

 deep yet unrecorded on the page of science. 



Man feels overawed on gazing upon for the first time 

 the stupendous elephant; but what is the elephant com- 

 pared to the whale, measuring from sixty to a hundred 

 feet in length, and correspondingly thick? This animal, 

 although it outwardly resembles a fish, is, nevertheless, 

 not classed as such, because it gives birth to live young 

 ones, whilst fish lay eggs, from which the young come 

 forth after some time. Pish breathe under the water 

 through their gills, whilst the whale has real honest-to- 

 goodness lungs, and so must from time to time come to the 

 surface to breathe ; if it did not it would suffocate like other 

 animals which are accustomed to live in the open air. 



Consider the mighty tuna, the swordfish, the sailfish! 

 Three mighty warriors are these, and many a sportsman 

 will tell you what game qualities each possesses. Some of 

 the most thrilling experiences the man with the rod and reel 

 ever had were had with one or more of these fishes. Some- 

 times the battle lasted for hours with the issue of the con- 



