How It 

 Happened 



The Remora 



(Remora remora) 



Favorite Fish and Fishing 



California, but the so-called shark-sucker, 

 suckfish or remora. Perhaps every genuine 

 American boy has exercised his proud privi- 

 lege of catching suckers in the glad spring- 

 time, and some have doubtless continued the 

 sport in later life in Wall Street and other 

 similar fishing localities. But very few have 

 ever caught the shark-sucker or remora. 

 To be exact I never knew of any one but 

 myself who ever took one with hook and 

 line. 



It happened in this way. My boat was 

 anchored in Sarasota Bay, Florida, when 

 one day I was examining the pintles and 

 rudder hinges before sailing, when I no- 

 ticed several remoras attached to the stern 

 of the vessel. With a hook and hand-line 

 and venison for bait I caught them all, four 

 of them, in less than four minutes, for they 

 were exceedingly voracious. When the bait 

 was dangled near one he immediately left 

 his anchorage and seized it. 



The remora is one of the most interest- 

 ing fishes known to science. Its first dorsal 

 fin is developed as a sucking disk of an 

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