. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. SALT-WATER FISH AND PISHING. 293. RBDPISH OP THE GULF OF MEXICO. Corvina ocellata. Holbrook, in his Ichthyology of South Carolina, says, of this fish, "it is of a beautiful silvery color and iridiscent when taken from
. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. SALT-WATER FISH AND PISHING. 293. RBDPISH OP THE GULF OF MEXICO. Corvina ocellata. Holbrook, in his Ichthyology of South Carolina, says, of this fish, "it is of a beautiful silvery color and iridiscent when taken from the ; In the gulf it is invariably red, and retains that color until it is cooked; but, from the above, appears to assume an entirely different tint in the neighborhood of Charleston. These fish are exceedingly numerous in the waters of the gulf; at Charlotte harbor, they come into shallow w;ater in such numbers that they are easily speared. Although many persons esteem it a good fish for boiling or baking, or in a " cubrion" or chowder, I have always found its flesh stringy and lacking flavor, and in no way comparable to its little kinsman of frying-pan celebrity, the Croaker. They are angled for with the same tackle, and much in the same way, as for Barb or Weakfish; they generally take the bait near the bottom. As those taken with the hook and line are usually large—sometimes as long as twenty-four and even thirty inches—^they afford fine sport. They strike boldly, and run off thirty or forty feet of line at the first dash; as the mouth is fleshy, they are seldom lost when fairly hooked. A rod of fourteen feet, fifty yards of good silk or hemp line. No. 00 Kirby hook, and a large float, are generally Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-18
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