150 Big Game Fishes 
known to science as Ocyurus chrysurus, and at 
Porto Rico as colirudza. It is a dainty, radiant 
creature, one of the most attractive of all fishes, 
nor only with yellow tail, which color constitutes 
the base from which radiate rays of golden lines, 
splashing and blotching it with color. Its eye, 
like that of the large Seriola, is an object of 
beauty, clear, bright, black, and vivid red. I have 
taken it off the great fringing reef of Garden Key 
by casting in among the waving gorgonias —a 
fitting home for so beautiful a creature, and can 
commend the fish, which attains a weight of eight 
or even ten pounds, to the angler with an eight or 
ten ounce rod, the lightest line, with a number 
three O'Shaughnessy hook with a three-ply twisted 
gut leader and no sinker. Such an equipment 
with fresh crayfish bait will afford the angler 
much delightful sport. 
The relative game qualities of the same fishes 
of different size is an interesting subject. The 
yellowtails of all sizes are good fighters, and by 
varying the size of the rod and tackle the angler 
can obtain full enjoyment from all. In my ex- 
perience the yellowtail of seventeen or twenty 
pounds is as a rule the hardest fighter, many very 
large fishes not possessing the agility and activity ; 
