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SPINY-FINNED FISHES 



speed, tlie Bluefish will come chasing after you to bite at 

 your dummy fisli, and give you a hundred thrills to the 

 minute while you are hauling them in. If it happens that the 

 bite of a bear has put two of the fingers of your right hand 



THE BLUEFISH. 



out of commission, that hand will have all it can possibly 

 do to grasp the line adequately and haul in. 



Fishing for Bluefish in a good breeze — with not too much 

 sea on — is like hunting mountain sheep amid grand scenery. 

 Half the sport is in the fine surroundings. 



Drs. Jordan and Evermann say that this fish is found all 

 the way from our coast to the Cape of Good Hope, the Med- 

 iterranean, the Indian Ocean, and the Malay Archipelago, "a 

 wandering fish . . . sometimes disappearing from certain 



