. 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. 294 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BLUEFISH. SNAPPING MACKEEEL. SKIP-JACK. TAILOR. Temnodon saltator. Body oblong, compressed, thicker above, and almost as sharp below as the Shad, though the belly is not as completely carinat
. 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. 294 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BLUEFISH. SNAPPING MACKEEEL. SKIP-JACK. TAILOR. Temnodon saltator. Body oblong, compressed, thicker above, and almost as sharp below as the Shad, though the belly is not as completely carinated. Head large, profile slightly convex; mouth large, lower jaw slightly longer than the upper; both jaws are armed with straight, compressed, lancet-shaped teeth, the upper jaw having also an internal, but less extensive, row; the vomer, palate, and pharyngeal bones have minute brush- like teeth. Branchial rays, seven. Fins: the first dorsal has eight weak spines, which Holbrook says are enclosed in a sheath or groove; this I have failed to observe; the second has twenty-seven rays; pectorals sixteen rays; ventral, one spine and five soft rays; anal, twenty-eight soft rays; the caudal is deeply forked, has twenty rays, and is covered three- fourths of its length with minute scales. Color, green on the back, shading gradually to a silvery white on sides and belly. This fish sometimes reaches the extreme length of three feet, though the average of those taken in our inlets and bays is not over two or three pounds. Bluefish are found all along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida; the smaller fish frequenting the bays and inlets; the larger are found outside, but within 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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