. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. m -ri THE TAUTOG, OR BLACK-FISH. 317 Beason of baiting is reckoned very favorable until the increasing warmth of the season brings food enough to fill their stomachs, and they thereupon afford less pastime to the sportsman, and less profit to the professor. The people express this sentiment in these coarse rhymes: " • Whea chestnut leaves are as big as thumb nail, Then bite Black-Fish without fail; But wiieii ches
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform] : illustrated from nature. Fishing; Fishes; Pêche sportive; Poissons. m -ri THE TAUTOG, OR BLACK-FISH. 317 Beason of baiting is reckoned very favorable until the increasing warmth of the season brings food enough to fill their stomachs, and they thereupon afford less pastime to the sportsman, and less profit to the professor. The people express this sentiment in these coarse rhymes: " • Whea chestnut leaves are as big as thumb nail, Then bite Black-Fish without fail; But wiieii chestnut leaves are as long as a span, Then catch Black-Fish if you can.' " " The common bait for Black-Fish is the soft clam, mya. The soldier crab, or fiddler, ocypoda, will frequently tempt him when he refuses to taste the other. And he snaps very readily at the large finny worm of the salt-water beaches, nereis, when used on a hook "^" Some persons, who live contiguous to the shores where are sit- uated the rocks frequented by Tautog, invite the fish there by baiting. Bv this is meant the throwing overboard broken clams or crabs, to induce the Black Fish to renew their visits, and fine sprt is pro- ''''" Rocky shores and bottoms are the haunts of Black-FisL Long experience Is required to find all these places of resort. Nice obser- vations on the landmarks, in different directions, are requisite to enable a fishing party to anchor on the proper spot. When, for example, a certain rock and tree range one way, with a barn window appearin^^ over a headland the other way, the boat being at the point where tw°o such lines intersect each other, is exactly over some famous rendezvous. To insure success on such expectation, it is proper to have a pilot along, well versed in all the local and minute knowledge According to the number and distance of the rocks and reefs visited, will be the time consumed, from the duration of a few hours to a long summer's day.
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