THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



lagoons of Garden Key, Florida, with indifferent success. There 

 are great species of creTall6, aUies of the Florida jack, that afford 

 sport to the sea-angler in many ports and harbours all along- 

 shore, while the ubiquitous tuna often appears, several bonitoes, 

 the barracuda, relations of the white sea bass, with an assort- 

 ment of rays, more than satisfying to the lover of big game at 

 sea. The islands adjacent to the coast are rich in fishes known 

 to be game. This is particularly true of the Barbados, where the 

 fishes are taken beneath the British flag and where the flying 

 fish is the bonne louche. Mr. Aflalo ate them ^nd has ' dreamed 

 of them ever since.' I agree with him, and regret the Catalina 

 flyer is not so good. Years ago the small local restaurants cut 

 off their wings and served them as ' trout. 



One of the finest game fishes of Chili is 8arda chilensis, 

 which roams the seas widely ; and here is a distinct and splendid 

 Spanish mackerel. But perhaps the finest of all is the great 

 Guahu or Peto, a six-foot sharp-nosed mackerel that weighs 

 one himdred and twenty or so pounds and is known as a wrecker 

 of heavy tackle. It has teeth serrated Uke a shark. The amber- 

 jacks are represented off this coast by Seriola lalandi, and has been 

 taken up to one hundred pounds and over. A large and really 

 beautiful game fish, the PapageUo (Nemalistius), abounds on the 

 South American coast ; it resembles the amber-jacks, but has 

 long and filamentous dorsals, giving it a most grotesque appear- 

 ance. I have taken it in the Gulf of California, off the delta of 

 the Yaqui, and lost many a hook before I succeeded in landing 

 one. A fierce fighter is the dorado, known in the north as the 

 dolphin. Many of the American trout, the rainbow and others, 

 the brown trout of the East and the brook-trout have been placed 

 in the rivers of the Southern Continent and in many instances 

 have done well, affording promise for the future. 



The coast of Trinidad particularly has fine sea angling ; 

 and the angler with a good trolling rod of sixteen ounces and a 

 twenty-one thread line will find abundant sport with tarpon, 

 barracuda, the big jacks (crevall4), the leaping kingfish of sixty 

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