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AMERICAN FISHES. 



it a very unprofitable attempt for the angler to fish for them by any 

 of these modes. 



A coarse, heavy, stiff rod — a long and powerful oiled hempen or 

 flaxen line — on a large winch, with a heavy sinker, a cod-hook baited 

 with any kind of flesh, fish, or fowl — but, best of all, with a piece of the 

 belly of its own species, is the most successful if not the most orthodox 

 or scientific mode of capturing him. 



Its great size and immense strength alone give him value as a fish 

 of game ; but when hooked, he pulls strongly and fights lard, though 

 he is a boring deep fighter, and I think never leaps out of water, like 

 the True Salmon or the Brook Trout. 



