Bait Angling for Common Fishes 



hooks are used, though the limit seems to 

 be three. 



The same may also be said regarding 

 the choice of bait used in cod fishing 

 clams, crabs, worms or killies, it is all the 

 same to this ravenous fish, who, after tak- 

 ing it, makes no resistance whatever, and 

 the ease of its capture is but limited to its 

 weight. 



It has become quite a saying. u He bites 

 like a codfish, " anglers will exclaim when 

 a fish of any kind gives no fight. So that 

 this fish is perhaps the least desirable to 

 catch from the angler's standpoint of 

 gamey sport; not so, however, is it 

 despised, for it is a valuable prize, if a big 

 one, and the proud angler goes home with 

 the assurance of at least two good meals 

 for his family. If the cod is cooked within 

 a few hours of its capture the flesh is much 

 harder and tastes sweeter than those fish 

 purchased in the market, that have proba- 

 bly been caught three or four days. 



The torn cod in form is a miniature of 

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