Popular Salt- Water Game Fish 



could be checked. The game later tipped the 

 scales at eighty pounds." 



Of course, no such weakfishing occurs on the 

 Eastern coast. The white bass is taken almost 

 invariably in deep water along the rocks, and will 

 often plunge down and sulk; then plunging along, 

 it makes inshore rushes to reach deep channels. 



Not all anglers use the rod, many fish with the 

 line by hand; but the most artistic and humane 

 use a rod of greenheart or bamboo, seven to 

 eight feet long, weighing up to fifteen ounces, with 

 a line of 15 to 18 Cuttyhunk, or even larger, as the 

 fish are given to sulking and therefore have to be 

 lifted, once in a while. The hook should be a 9/0 

 Limerick, with a piano-wire leader a foot 

 Used C m l en gth- The bait is a smelt or sardine, 

 about six inches in length, and is impaled 

 through the mouth, the point thrust through the 

 belly of the fish and the mouth of the latter bound 

 and fastened to the shank of the hook by a silver 

 wire, which should be attached to every hook. To 

 prevent the bait from whirling and the line from 

 untwisting, the leader should have at least two 

 swivels. 



The method of fishing is to troll slowly, just 

 outside the sea- weed; the fish nearly always swim 

 on the surface, in small schools, and are easily 

 recognized by their dorsal fins peeping above the 



water. The fish are not easily alarmed, 

 Trolling J , 



when the bait is cast among them, for 



the reason that it is the habit of the flying-fish to 



repeatedly drop with a splash in all directions, and 



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