most fond of. This fish belongs to the 
drum family, and all this family 
have heavy bones in the throat used 
to crush or masticate the hard shells 
of their usual foods. As the red fish 
is equipped with four such discs, I am 
of the opinion that the minnows are 
crushed to a pulp during the act of 
swallowing. This accounts for the 
scarcity of minnows in the stomach of 
this fish. The hard shells of the crabs 
and other mollusks offer more resis- 
tance to digestion, and while they are 
always crushed to small particles, they 
are found in the stomach in prepon- 
derance. I am quite sure the red fish 
live largely on minnows, as it is seldom 
one will get a strike in water where 
minnows are not observed in casting. 
In going into these salt runs with the 
tide, if one reaches water where no 
minnows start with the cast, it is just 
as well to turn back for one-half a 
mile and go over the ground. I made 
it a rule never to continue the chase 
where there were no minnows visible. 
Again, I noticed that where the schools 
of mullet were seen jumping and 
scurrying around we almost invariably 
found red fish. I believe the absence 
of mullet in the stomachs of these fish 
is due to the grinding up of this fish, 
as I have suggested, for they do not 
swallow the minnow whole as do the 
bass. I found only two recognizable 
minnows, one a needle fish which was 
broken and crushed to small pieces, 
and one a minnow called by the guides 
“hound fish” which was also practically 
pulpified. A description of our methods 
gives the fruits of the conclusions ar- 
rived at. 
The fish lie out in shallow water 
during low tide and as the tide rises 
and flows into the channel through the 
marsh grass that lines the gulf at 
this point, the fish go in, and at first 
devote themselves to catching the crabs 
that the low water has driven from 
the oyster bars and rock ledges. Later 
as the water gets higher the minnows 
go in and feed along the banks and 
then the red fish go after them and 
when the tide is well up on the marsh 
grass they strike right at the bank, 
much as the black bass do. The chase 
begins as soon as the water gets deep 
enough to get a skiff over the rocks 
and bars, at first casting along the 
for the cast is made just as in fishing 
for bass, only the lure is retrieved a 
bit faster, for the best results and 
runs about five inches under water. 
When the fish takes the lure it stops 
just as if hung on the bottom, and 
there is a frantic effort to eject the 
hook for a few moments; then a mad 
rush makes the line sing through the 
water. He will often run for a hun- 
dred feet or more before stopping and 
make another frantic effort to get rid 
of the hook when he will again make 
as heavy and as long a run as at first. 
At this time he usually stops and 
stands on his head in an endeavor to 
wipe the hook from his mounth on the 
rocks on the bottom, often bending the 
hook and mutilating a strong lure. 
After failing in this he permits him- 
self to be slowly brought in, fighting 
every foot of the way, until in easy 
sight of the boat when he refuses to 
come closer and here displays the 
cutest trick I have ever witnessed in 
fishing. Coming up with his side to 
the boat he slowly bends his head 
toward the boat, keeping the line as 
tense as possible. When he thinks he 
has gotten all the slack out of the line, 
he suddenly throws his head in the 
opposite direction with a tremendous 
“whack” in his effort to break the line. 
This he will do over and over. His 
effort to “foul” the line over “oyster 
buds” and projecting rocks are almost 
human. This requires quick action on 
the part of the fisherman, standing in 
the boat, holding the rod at arms} 
length over the head, to guide the line 
clear during his mad rushes. These 
fish do not break water, but for real 
honest fighting with force and cunning 
T have not found their superier. They 
are also more wary than even the bass, 
as they will not attack the lure at 
all if they see you or if any variation 
in speed arouses their suspicion. 
It is a good fisherman who lands 
one-half of his strikes and we hardly 
averaged that, but after working out 
the size of the hook and length of pork 
rind, our average improved. We use 
a 14-pound test line except Mr. Foss, 
who landed most of his with a 9-pound 
test line. To do effective work, except 
when the water is well up in the grass, 
the cast requires at least 100 feet and 
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