. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. yUH AMKKICAN KlUllKS. !»»'â â â. which njust not be confounded with the Mulashegauuyâ or Black Shoep\s-Hcad, Corviiui Richardsonii^ a congenerous fish, taken nearly in the same waters, and with the same baitâany, to wit, of the fiosh- water Molluscas, and, above all, with the Cray-Fishâwhich is as ex- cellent as this other is abominable on the table : " This is a villain in general estimationâthe pe
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] illustrated from nature by the author. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. yUH AMKKICAN KlUllKS. !»»'â â â. which njust not be confounded with the Mulashegauuyâ or Black Shoep\s-Hcad, Corviiui Richardsonii^ a congenerous fish, taken nearly in the same waters, and with the same baitâany, to wit, of the fiosh- water Molluscas, and, above all, with the Cray-Fishâwhich is as ex- cellent as this other is abominable on the table : " This is a villain in general estimationâthe pest of the fisher for Bassâa fish that putteth the cook, who would render him acceptable at table, in a quandaryâfrom which, I am sorry to say, I canndt re- lieve her, though she be at her wit's end. " He is generally brown, gray or reddish above, and of a dead, im- pure white below. His head is large, and his body is flattened latterly, though the frying-pan rejecteth him. His ordinary weight is two or three pounds, though he sometimes weighs five, and even six. His food, his haunts, his habits, arc similar to those of the Black Bass, whom he ever accompanieth, as though he were intended by nature as a foil to set off the merits of that jewel of the flood. He is despised, yea, detested, by the choleric angler, who pulls him out, and then dasheth him upon the stones. " The Sheep's-Head of the sea is a lusty, crafty fish, bepraised alike by the fisherman an-l the epicure. At the turn of the tide, he takes the whole soft elani on your hook at a mouthful, and chews it, shell and all, and pulls like a Salmon as you draw him in ; and hjs radiant, deep and broad-barred sidesâas he flaps about on the sand of that low islet in the great south bay of Long Island, to which you have just hauled himâhow brilliantly they show, and make you think of the dying Dolphin, and of old Arion ! And when he reposes at the head of the tubleâfit place for himâbeautiful, thou
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