. The American angler. Fishing. ii6 TJie American Angler. and sheepshead, all good eating fish, are taken in great quantities. The rock bass are also taken while trolling, and, with rod and line, make the best of sport. The other deep-sea fishing is done as follows : Go straight out to sea until you reach five to six hundred feet of water. Anchor, and drop a line baited as stated above. Should you hook a twenty- pound fish at a depth of six hundred feet, you would not feel any movement; hence the rule is to drop your line and in ten minutes pull it up. The fish thus taken are sand dabs, which
. The American angler. Fishing. ii6 TJie American Angler. and sheepshead, all good eating fish, are taken in great quantities. The rock bass are also taken while trolling, and, with rod and line, make the best of sport. The other deep-sea fishing is done as follows : Go straight out to sea until you reach five to six hundred feet of water. Anchor, and drop a line baited as stated above. Should you hook a twenty- pound fish at a depth of six hundred feet, you would not feel any movement; hence the rule is to drop your line and in ten minutes pull it up. The fish thus taken are sand dabs, which resemble pompano, and groupers, a fish running as high as six to ten pounds in weight, almost as red as gold fish, with huge mouths and eyes, and otherwise shaped very much like a rock cod. When the grouper nears the surface his eyes burst out of his head, and often his bladder will fly out of his mouth. This results from its being suddenly relieved from the immense pressure to which it is sub- jected at the bottom of the sea. If dislodged from the hook in fifty or even one hundred feet of water, it immedi- ately comes to the surface, without power of returning to the bottom. The grouper is a fish of great delicacy, and is especially esteemed for chowder. But the great sport to be had at Cat- alina is in catching the June fish, com- monly called the Jewfish. This monster of the deep belongs to the bass family. They have been caught weighing as high as twelve hundred pounds. The largest one I saw this summer weighed 480 pounds, and was caught by the Mayor of San Jose, packed in ice and immediately hurried to the Garden City, as a tropy of his prowess. To take this large fish you anchor just oif the kelp. The hook used is five or six inches long and nearly two inches across from the. 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 resembl
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