. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . Z The Scuppaug and the Fair Maid 92 The Red Drum loi The Squeteague no The King and Queen Fishes 123 Spots, Croakers and Roncadors 129 Sea Drum and Lake Drum 136 Cobia, Moonfish and Flasher 144 The Bluefish 157 The Mackerel and its Allies 163 The Spanish Mackerel and the Ceroes 184 The Pompanoes 198 Bonitoes and Tunnies 206 29047 AMERICAN FISHES. The Harvest Fishes 2 21 226 239 257274 The Cavally and other Carangoids ...,.,. Sword Fish, Spear Fish and
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture . Z The Scuppaug and the Fair Maid 92 The Red Drum loi The Squeteague no The King and Queen Fishes 123 Spots, Croakers and Roncadors 129 Sea Drum and Lake Drum 136 Cobia, Moonfish and Flasher 144 The Bluefish 157 The Mackerel and its Allies 163 The Spanish Mackerel and the Ceroes 184 The Pompanoes 198 Bonitoes and Tunnies 206 29047 AMERICAN FISHES. The Harvest Fishes 2 21 226 239 257274 The Cavally and other Carangoids ...,.,. Sword Fish, Spear Fish and Cutlass Fish , ..... .. The Rose Fish and its A/ties Pike, Muskellunge and Pickerel. Tautog, Chogset and Parrot-fish 2S7 Sculpins and Gurnards , , 307 Halibut, Flatfish and Flounder .............. 307 Cod, Pollock, Haddock and Hake 2)2iZ The Mullets 365 The Catfish or Bull-head ., 376 The Herrincr and its Allies •;Si Carp, Dace and Minnow ,, 411 2he Salmon 441 The Salmon. Trouts — 454 TJie Lake Trouts 462 The Brook Trouts or Chars 469 The Pacific Salmons 4S0 The Graylings 4S4 The Whitefishes and the Smelts 4SS Index ? - • • 493. PROLOGUE. Athen^us : Deipnosophia. 6 6/^^OME, let us discourse about fish, said Athenoeus, in his Deipno-Sophia, and so said Mr. A. R. Hart, coming into my studylast January. Write us a book about fish and fishing in America,he urged, and since, as it happens, I know more about fish and fishing inAmerica than I do about anything else, I consented. This volume has been prepared for the use of the angler, the lover ofnature, and the general reader. It is not intended for naturalists, and thetechnicalities of zoological description have therefore been avoided ; forthe concise and precise phraseology of science, admirable though it be forthe use of those who have been trained to employ it, is to others not onlymisleading, but it may be, repulsive. I have aimed to include in my discussion every North American fishwhich is likely to be of interest to
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