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hooked at one end are used for bait in much the 

 same manner as the launce. The squid is a 

 favorite bait with most fish, but the conger, bass, 

 and some few others, seem to have a great pen- 

 chant for it. Lultoes are generally baited with it 

 for conger, ray, ling, &c. 



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Is a good bait for the spiller, and also for hooking 

 with, especially in winter, when nothing else can 

 be readily obtained for bait. These singular ani- 

 mals arc found in soft rocks or the decayed wood 

 which is usually submerged at all times but low 

 Avater, spring tides, when they are obtained by 

 digging for in the soft wood, which in some places 

 on the coast is found in immense quantities, as 

 though whole woods had been overwhelmed by 

 the sea. They are divested of their shells when 

 about to be used, and the tough compact fish 

 hooked at one end so as to hang pendent from 



