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taining rapturous sport. Take your bait with you from 
New York market, for fear of delay. Caving Channel, a 
sandy bottom tideway from Communipaw to Jersey City, is 
said to be a favorite run for small kingfish, where good sport 
is often realized on the first of the flood. Kingfish feed also 
at numerous places in the South Bay, and all along the coast 
of New Jersey. 
To anglers who dwell near the coast, 
The kingtish is a peculiar joy ; 
And among all the scaly host, 
This they choose as their favorite toy. 
SECTION SIXTH. 
THE HOGFISH. 
This fish is very numerous on the Bahama banks and along 
the coast of the Southern States, visiting in the spring, which 
is its spawning season, as far north as the mouth of the Ches- 
apeake Bay. It is white-meated and very juicy, requiring no 
butter or lard in cooking, and its peculiar flavor is very rich 
and creamy, being the best table-fish among anglers’ fishes of 
the South. It ranges in weight from five to fifteen pounds. 
Its scales are rather large, except on the head, where they are 
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very small. The first dorsal is spinous-rayed, and all the 
rays of the other fins are soft. It is marked similar to the 
perch, with rays or bars ofa darker shade than the rest of the 
fish, which is a reddish-brown. This fish is angled for by 
still-baiting with shedder or soft-shell crab, and with shank- 
