174 Big Game Fishes 
When seized they wriggled, or quivered, so con- 
vulsively that they imparted a series of seeming 
electric shocks felt as high as my elbows, and 
curiously enough some of the boatmen believed 
that this jack was an electric fish. I have noticed 
the same effect when holding a bonito firmly by 
the tail, and a dying tuna will sometimes impart 
a tremulous quivering motion to a small boat. 
The jacks add greatly to the pleasure of an- 
glers along the coast of Florida, especially in the 
Indian River country, down by Biscayne Bay and 
up the west coast, where they are easily caught, 
and at Aransas Pass, Texas, though I failed to 
take them at this interesting fishing ground. It 
is one of the highly esteemed game fishes; and at 
other localities in the Gulf states, its valiant habit 
commends itself to the man with the rod. 
