130 Tisainc in AmErRIcAN WATERS. 
ing for striped bass; for if the cast be made beyond a certain 
range, the angler is sure of a bluefish, if any thing. 
I have here roughly sketched a part of a shoal of Spanish 
mackerel feeding. To troll with hope of success for these 
SPANISH MAcKEREL FEEDING. 
delicacies, employ a light, swift-sailing craft, and rig it with 
along outrigger on each side; for a heavy vessel cleaving a 
shoal disperses the live bait on which they are feeding, and 
the fright causes the shoal to settle without biting. Fre- 
quently have I trolled through a shoal of thousands, with 
hundreds in sight all the time, and as the craft passed through 
and got far enough from the shoal to tell, have felt the bite, 
and, while drawing the fish in, have commented upon the ease 
of detecting the difference between the Spanish inackerel on 
my troll from the hard-monthed bluefish, only to be laughed 
at a moment afterward as I landed a bluefish in the boat. 
Said I,“ This is, of course, a Spanish mackerel; any novice 
might distinguish him by his bite; and then he comes in so 
gently, but swims low.” Ican detect by the bite, when still- 
baiting, almost any kind of estuary fish; but in trolling any 
angler is liable to be deceived. 
From the limited experience thus far gained by using 
