ADDENDA TO POPULAR SALT WATER 

 FISHES Page 21 



BARRACUDA, GREAT (Sphyraena barracuda}. Barra- 

 cutta, Spit Sinnet, Guachanche Pelon, etc. Caught 

 with the same outfit as used for Tarpon, on the surface, 

 trolling with squid bait, or still fishing with mullet or 

 other small fishes. Measures up to six feet. Ranges 

 from Brazil northward through the West Indies to 

 Pensacola, Charleston and the Bermudas. There are 

 several smaller species one (S. ensis) of two feet in 

 length in the Gulf of Mexico southward to Panama; 

 another (S. guachancho) of two feet in length with the 

 same distribution as the Great Barracuda, but occa- 

 sionally found as far north as Wood's Hole; another 

 (5. picudilld) of eighteen inches in length, found from 

 Bahia northward to the West Indies; another of a 

 foot and a half in length, the Northern Barracuda (S. 

 borealis) , common on the Atlantic Coast from Cape 

 Fear to Cape Cod, and the California Barracuda (S. ar- 

 gentea) , of four and five feet in length, occurring on the 

 Pacific Coast from San Francisco to Cape San Lucas , 

 very commonly so among the Santa Barbara Islands. 



MACKEREL, SIERRA (Scomberomorus regalis) . Pintardo, 

 Kingfish, etc. Ranges from Cape Cod to Brazil. 

 Not easily distinguished from the Spanish Mackerel 

 and the Cero Mackerel. Weighs up to twenty pounds. 

 Caught on the troll; is a fine food and game fish. 

 Common about Florida and Cuba. 



POLLOCK Addendum to item on page 37: Is said to- 

 be caught on the artificial fly in the spring of the year 

 along the New England Coast. 



RAVALLIA, (Snook, Robalo, etc.). Addendum to item 

 on page 38 : This fish is said to rise to the artificial fry. 



