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nacles on the spile cut my line, and there I was minus fifty feet, or so, 

 of line. I repeated the above process four or five times with the 

 same precise result in each case, and had less than 100 feet of line 

 left out of 600. John, of course, in each case, would criticise my 

 method of handling the fishes, saying in some cases, "You ought to 

 have played him longer "; then, in the next case, he would say, "You 

 did not bring that fish in quick enough ; you gave him too much line," 

 etc., etc. The onlooker always indulges in that kind of talk. I 

 told John to just try it himself, which he did with another rod and 

 600 feet of line, and he came out of the fight just as I had, with 

 about 100 feet of line. Of course, I got in my critical work on him. 

 Revenge is sweet. 



A day or two afterwards we had the same kind of a school of Blue- 

 fish at the Inlet, a little inside ; followed the same tactics, and I hooked 

 the " largest " Amber Jack I ever saw, played him half an hour, the 

 hook wore a hole in his jaw and dropped out ten feet from the skiff. 

 I said nothing, of course. 



Illustration. Page. 



52. "ELAGATIS BIPINNULATUS." Not illustrated. 906 



Runners ; 



Yellow-tail Runner ; 

 Coginera. 



S3. "TRACHUROPS CRUMENOPHTHALMUS." 



385 911 



Goggle-eye Runner ; 

 Goggler ; 

 Big-eyed Scad ; 

 Goggle-eye Jack ; 

 Chicarro ; 

 Horse-eye Jack. 



