384 Bass, Pike, and Perch 



kinds of fish could be seen swimming about in the 

 very clear water. These fishes could be readily 

 taken with the hook or the spear, as they were 

 unable to see any one in the dark room above. 

 I was much interested watching the chub and 

 sheepshead pinching off the barnacles from the 

 piles with their chisel-like teeth. A dozen could 

 be easily taken in as many minutes with fiddler 

 bait, and the table was kept well supplied with 

 chub, which was the favorite food-fish during my 

 sojourn. 



THE ANGEI^FISH 



{CluEtodipterus faber) 



CJiatodipterus faber. The Angel-fish. Body much ele's-ated and 

 compressed, its outline nearly orbicular, the anterior profile 

 nearly vertical ; head 3; depth i to ij; scales 60: D. VIII-I, 

 20; A. Ill, i8 : jaws about equal: no teeth on vomer or pala- 

 tines; teeth on jaws slender, somewhat movable: preopercle 

 finely serrate ; two dorsal fins, somewhat connected ; vertical 

 fins falcate in the adult ; first soft ray of dorsal filamentous ; 

 ventral fin with a large accessory scale. 



There are a number of angel-fishes in Florida, 

 remarkable for their bizarre and beautiful col- 

 oration, but of no importance to the angler as 

 they do not often take the baited hook, their 

 very small mouths and weak teeth being only 

 adapted for feeding on the minute organisms 

 about the coral reefs. The common angel-fish. 



