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for it. I have caught a fish trolling with a white 
rag, with crayfish, conch, cut to resemble a sar- 
dine, or mullet, and with a hand-line after a sail 
boat it affords all the sport of the bluefish when 
taken in the same manner; but for true sport the 
rod should be employed, casting or trolling with 
sardine or young mullet bait impaled on a 3/o 
O’Shaughnessy hook. 
The jack, Caranx hippos, is a member of the 
family Carangide, a near relative of the mack- 
erels and pompanoes; on the Atlantic coast alone 
there are twenty-five or more species, many of 
which afford prime sport with the rod. The 
only criticism one can make concerning it is that 
it is not a table fish of the first rank, though in 
the hands of an expert chef the dark meat is ex- 
cellent. The hard-tailed jack, or jurel, Cavanx 
ptsquetus, though not attaining the size of the 
former, is of very similar habit and very gamy, its 
swift movements making its capture rare sport 
with a light rod. Once while turning green 
turtles on Loggerhead Key, a school of these 
fishes began to beat alongshore. I waded among 
them and threw out upon the sands as many as 
my men required by catching them by the tail, as 
they dashed into the almost solid mass of sardines. 
