. The fishes of the east Atlantic coast, that are caught with hook and line. Such is the life of the cod-fisher, and many arethose whom the returning sloop reports as missing. The New York angler knows codfishing in a different aspect ; hesees a notice in his Sunday journal that the commodious, sumptu-ous, etc., etc., palace, etc., etc., steamboat will take a party of gen-tlemen to the fishing banks at such and such a time. Excursionticket one dollar ; lines and bait furnished. Well, he goes ; whynot ? After heaving a coarse cotton line and a pound or so of leadan hour or two, he turns from th
. The fishes of the east Atlantic coast, that are caught with hook and line. Such is the life of the cod-fisher, and many arethose whom the returning sloop reports as missing. The New York angler knows codfishing in a different aspect ; hesees a notice in his Sunday journal that the commodious, sumptu-ous, etc., etc., palace, etc., etc., steamboat will take a party of gen-tlemen to the fishing banks at such and such a time. Excursionticket one dollar ; lines and bait furnished. Well, he goes ; whynot ? After heaving a coarse cotton line and a pound or so of leadan hour or two, he turns from the fishing banks to the fishing bar,calls for a glass of—water, and comes home disgusted with thingsin general. The bait on these occasions is chopped fish or codfish, when hooked, makes two or three lunges and then comeslip like a log. I have said too much about the codfish—he is an uglygray fish in my opinion, good neither to eat nor to catch. In thefall along the Jersey coast codfish are sometimes taken by skitteringwith a piece of red flannel as a
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