THE GAME FISHES OF THE WORLD 



(Abramis) of three kinds : Pomeranian, Golden and Silver bream. 

 I am sorry to say I shall never take one, as I observe England's 

 distinguished angling authority, Mr. Clark, says, ' the bream 

 can hardly be taken except between two p.m., or three p.m., 

 and a mortal's breakfast hour.' The bleak {Albumus), eels, 

 minnows, loach, ruffe, the lamprey, eel, pout, blue roach, powan, 

 gwyniad, shad and gramlng are others occasionally taken 

 in the waters of the TJnited Kingdom. 



When angling for lamprey, it is well to remember that An- 

 tonia, the wife of Drusus, owned a lamprey in whose gills she 

 hung earrings, and it was Martial who wrote : 



' Angler would'st thou be guiltless ? then forbear. 

 For these are sacred fishes that swim here, 

 Who know their sovereign, and would lick his hand, 

 Than which none's greater in the world's command, 

 Nay more, they're names, and, when they called are. 

 Do to their several owner's call repair.' 



I may add that I have an account of the most remarkable fish 

 in the world, and the largest on record, the Eibbon fish (Begalecus) 

 taken on the coast of Scotland, a ribbon of silver, with scarlet 

 plumes a foot or more high. When such a beautiful fish visits 

 a coast but once in a century, and is so rare that nearly every 

 catch is on record somewhere, the angler has but little chance to 

 try his skill and invention on it. But to show how lucky I am, 

 I have had four of these fishes brought to me when I happened 

 to be fishing at Santa Catahna in California. One six feet long 

 was alive, and through the courtesy of the owner of the Zoological 

 Station, I was allowed to have the fish photographed aUve, and 

 in the water, through the glass of its tank, securing an excellent 

 picture, the first known of the Uving fish. 



At Long Beach, California, a specimen about twenty-five 

 feet long was found, washed in by the sea. As these lines are 

 written, I have received the report from Santa Catalina, that a 

 diver on a glass bottom boat saw a nine foot Begalecus in the kelp 

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