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and a great blessing to the poor. Though generally caught 
with a hand-line, many are taken in set-nets and fykes. With 
light perch tackle, small hooks, and clam bait, it furnishes 
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sport to the disciple of rod and reel who does not fish for 
trout, and has no fishing in the vicinity of New York until 
the striped bass awaken to a feeding sense, which is usually 
from the first to the twentieth of May, toward the head of 
tide water. 
SECTION NINTH. 
THE BLUEFISH. 
Professor Mitchill has given to this fish, which affords 
more sport with the troll than any other, the classical name 
of Zemnodon Sailtator, the first from temo, to cut in pieces, 
probably indicating its sharp teeth; and the last signifying 
a pantomime dancer, doubtless with reference to its leaping 
or skipping; but, as if these names were not sufficiently de- 
scriptive, he adds those of Scomber Plumbeus, or leaden mack- 
erel. 
‘Tup Buverisu.— Temnodon Saltator.—Mitchill. 
The bluefish is known along the coast of New England as 
the horse mackerel, but that is a different fish, aud grows to 
the weicht of a thousand pounds, and sometimes more, while 
the bluefish seldom attains to twenty, though I have heard 
of thirty-pounders. The color from the back to the almost 
imperceptible lateral line is a leaden blue, whence it gradu- 
ally lightens to a white belly. The first dorsal fin is spinous 
—very sharp and strong, while the second and anal are ap- 
