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Spanish Flag: Caught on small-fish bait 

 about rocky reefs of very deep water about 

 Santa Barbara and Monterey. Weighs up to 

 six pounds. 



Spot (Lafayette, Goody, Chub, Roach, Ma- 

 sooka, Chopa Blanca, etc.): Caught on the 

 same tackle as applied to the Chogset small 

 trout rod, click reel, light linen line and leader, 

 split shot, etc. with bits of clam, shrimp, and 

 crab, regardless of tide from July to early 

 November. Abundant from New York to the 

 Gulf of Mexico. Averages a quarter of a 

 pound in weight. 



Squeteague (Weakfish, Yellow Fin, Sucker- 

 mang, Squit, Sea Bass, White Sea Bass, Cor- 

 vina, She Cults, Checutts, Bluefish, Chickwick, 

 Sea Trout, Spotted Trout, Salmon, Salmon 

 Trout, etc.) : Caught in the ocean and its surf, 

 bays, rivers, creeks, channels, inlets, etc., by 

 trolling in deep waters with an artificial squid 

 of bone, cedar, or pearl; with a light casting- 

 rod, multiplying reel, and linen line, by surf 

 fishing with shedder crab and killie bait 

 and the same rod and tackle, and in bay, flat, 

 and channel-fishing by plying medium tackle 

 six or eight-ounce bait or Trout rod, etc. 

 on shrimp, shedder crab, killie, and worm bait. 

 The Atlantic and Pacific coasts are represented 

 by several species. The Atlantic species 

 weighs from one to ten pounds. A specimen 

 weighing thirty pounds is on record. One 

 species of the Pacific weighs up to seventy-five 

 pounds. For the Weakfish of the flats at flood 

 tide use no sinker, or, at the most, a split shot. 

 In the channels angle as the water rushes in at 

 nearly flood tide also at flood tide and as the 

 water is rushing out. In the ocean, the 

 ebbing tide is best. In the North, the season 

 lasts from June to October, July, August, and 

 September being the popular months. In the 

 South the Squeteague is called Spotted Trout, 

 Sea Trout, and Salmon ; on the Pacific coast it 

 is referred to as Sea Bass, White Sea Bass, 

 Bluefish, Sea Trout, and Corvina. 



Squirrel-Fish : Caught with the Blackfish on 

 small tackle with clam bait near Charleston, 

 S. C., and southward to Brazil. Is a bril- 

 liantly tinted species. 



