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is also a certain amount of fishing off the sandy Be 
ach. 
beaches, much as on our east coast, but I never fishing 
saw the beach-fishers catch more than sharks 
or an occasional foul-hooked “salmon.” 
The black-fish of Port Jackson and other Black. 
inlets is caught with a peculiar green weed for fish 
bait, a rod being generally used. 
Lastly, there is the great perch of the Fitzroy and 
other Queensland rivers, wrongly styled “barra- Barra- 
munda,” which gives great sport on a short munda 
stout rod, the bait being a live “ skip-jack.” 
