. 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 piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. SALT-WATER FISH AND FISHING. 291. THE CEOAKBR. GRONIER. Micropogon undulatus: Cuvier. My acquaintance with this fish commenced twenty-five years ago, in Lake Ponchartrain. I have never seen it north of that water, though
. 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 piscatori, describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing : illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. SALT-WATER FISH AND FISHING. 291. THE CEOAKBR. GRONIER. Micropogon undulatus: Cuvier. My acquaintance with this fish commenced twenty-five years ago, in Lake Ponchartrain. I have never seen it north of that water, though Dr. Holbrook says "it is known to inhabit the waters of the United States from Virginia to Lake Ponchartrain, near New ; Form elliptical, tapering towards the tail; back arched; belly straight. Head large, rather long; minute cirri under the chin. Color, silvery gray on the back and sides, with undulating or irregular lines of dark spots, or rather mark- ings, reaching below the lateral line; belly white. Fins; the first dorsal has ten spines, the second twenty-eight rays; pectorals, fourteen; ventrals, one spine and five rays; anal, two spines and eight rays; caudal, eighteen rays. There are two or three longitudinal rows of spots, or minute blotches, on the dorsal and caudal fins. Croakers are taken in great quantities in the bays and lakes which connect with the Gulf of Mexico. In Lake Ponchartrain, Lake Borgne, Mobile Bay, at Pascagoula, and Pass Christian, they are found in great abundance. In. 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, 1811-1877. Philadelphia : E. H. Butler
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