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are not as big as one’s hand, and, of 
course, it takes a great many of them to 
make a mess for a few persons, but once 
a mess is secured it cannot be equaled in 
all the catches known to the piscatorial 
art. Another fish that we secured, and 
which the natives call boca dulce (sweet 
mouth), looked like a German carp. It 
had a pale blue head, weighed from two 
to four pounds, and seemed to run in 
schools, with no truants whatever to be 
found outside the school. One might 
fish a day for the boca dulce and never 
get a bite, but on the instant one was 
caught you could haul them in over the 
side of the boat as fast as you could bait 
and drop your hook, the biting ceasing 
as suddenly as it began. They are a 
delicious fish for eating, and should 
Guaymas ever become the large-sized 
