FISHING AT HOME AND ABROAD 



Silundia gangetica may also be taken similarly on spoon or fish. One so 

 taken weighed forty-two pounds. 



Macrones seenghala, known in the vernacular as the tengara, takes a 

 smaller fish, the little freshwater mullet for preference. 



Pseudeutropius Garua, known as the batchwa, and running to one and a 

 half pounds, takes the same fish, or one and a half inch spoon, or a lake- 

 trout fly greedily, sometimes three at a cast. 



Of smaller fish the name is legion. We will leave them to boys and 

 girls. 



ESTUARIAL FISH 



These provide good fighters. Lates calcarifer, the cock-up or nair fish of 

 Europeans, runs over thirty pounds, and Polynemus tetradactylus, averaging 

 ten pounds, is a notorious tackle-breaker. They evidently find seabathing 

 strengthening. 



. The red perch (Lutianus roseus) of five pounds weight, may be taken 

 like the two previous fish, by spinning a dead fish, only the bait should be 

 smaller. Megalops cyprinoides, with its big eyes, swims in shoals, and when 

 the shoal is passing it is like pulling out mackerel, and they run about the 

 same size, and will take a white fly or a small fish, and readily acclimatize 

 to fresh water. 



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