174 Big Game Fishes 



When seized they wriggled, or quivered, so con- 

 vulsively that they imparted a series of seeming 

 electric shocks felt as high as my elbows, and 

 curiously enough some of the boatmen believed 

 that this jack was an electric fish. I have noticed 

 the same effect when holding a bonito firmly by 

 the tail, and a dying tuna will sometimes impart 

 a tremulous quivering motion to a small boat. 



The jacks add greatly to the pleasure of an- 

 glers along the coast of Florida, especially in the 

 Indian River country, down by Biscayne Bay and 

 up the west coast, where they are easily caught, 

 and at Aransas Pass, Texas, though I failed to 

 take them at this interesting fishing ground. It 

 is one of the highly esteemed game fishes; and at 

 other localities in the Gulf states, its valiant habit 

 commends itself to the man with the rod. 



