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The spot taken in Northern waters are so small—seldom 
weighing over a quarter of a pound—that it is best to fish 
with small brook-trout hooks, single gut leader and snells, 
and bait with small pieces of clam or shrimp. If anglers 
will rig for them about the 20th of October, and bait and 
fish carefully with a pair of small trout-hooks, they will be 
rewarded with messes of pan-fish superior to any which the 
New York markets afford at that time of year 
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Tue Viraria Hocrisu.—Lachnolemus caninus. 
This fish differs greatly from the hogfish of the Bahamas 
of page 98. While it offers good sport to the angler, it is 
a superior table luxury, being so oily as to fry itself; and its 
white and juicy meat is sweet and of excellent relish. The 
dorsals and caudal fins, with the top of the head, are black; 
biack back, and fading to a light-gray abdomen, with pecto- 
ral, anal, and ventral fins a gray, with yellowish tinge. The 
irregular marks with which the fish is ornamented are a gold 
color. This fish is toothless, except very fine pin-teeth in the 
edge of the jaws and on the palate. Its weight is from a 
half to two pounds; bites at clam, shedder, and small bright 
bits of the scup. It is taken on light bass tackle, bites read- 
ily, and gives good play. 
The shadine belongs to a family of the mullet tribes; is 
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