American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . nt food-fish. It attains a length of 2 feet and a weight of severalpounds. At Key West the average weight is not more than apound. As a game-fish it is not without merit, it being a ready biter anda vigorous fighter. The commercial fishermen catch it with hook andline, using sardines for bait. At Key West it is hawked about thestreets in the early morning, and just at the hour when one mostdesires to sleep, his
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . nt food-fish. It attains a length of 2 feet and a weight of severalpounds. At Key West the average weight is not more than apound. As a game-fish it is not without merit, it being a ready biter anda vigorous fighter. The commercial fishermen catch it with hook andline, using sardines for bait. At Key West it is hawked about thestreets in the early morning, and just at the hour when one mostdesires to sleep, his slumbers are broken by the monotonous cry, Yallertail—rabirubia! Yallertail—rabirubia! first faint and distant,then growing stronger and stronger, passingunder your window adistracting yell, and then gradually dying away as the peripatetic ven-der of the luscious yallertail vanishes down the street. Colour in life, olivaceous above, rather pale and somewhat violet-tinged; a number of large, irregular deep yellow blotches on side ofback; a deep yellow stripe from tip of snout straight through eye tocaudal peduncle, there broadening and including all of tail above lateral 416. YELLOW-TAiL, Ocyurus chrvsuriis
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