The Sea Trout 



(Cy no scion 

 nebulosus) 



The Spanish 

 Mackerel 



(S comber omorus 

 maculatus) 



Favorite Fish and Fishing 



shrimp and cut bait can also be used. 

 Gaudy and attractive flies are the best for 

 fly-fishing, which can be practiced from 

 piers, a boat, or from the points of inlets. 

 The most popular way of fishing is by troll- 

 ing in the channels, when a spoon with but 

 a single hook should be used. 



The sea-trout is a surf ace- f ceding . fish, 

 and a game one. It is not a trout, of course, 

 but is akin to the Northern weakfish, and 

 is called a trout, by courtesy, because of its 

 black spots. It takes the fly because it can- 

 not help it, and will give the angler ample 

 exercise with a light rod before it is landed. 

 Being more high-minded than the sheeps- 

 head, it does its fighting on the surface. 

 The sea-trout is not a bushwhacker nor yet 

 a guerilla. It sometimes runs up the streams 

 to fresh water. 



The Spanish mackerel is not a whit be- 

 hind the sea-trout in gameness, or in its apti- 

 tude or fancy for the feathers and tinsel 

 of an artificial fly. It is the trimmest built 

 fish that swims, and always reminds me of 

 a beautiful racing yacht. It feeds and 

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