. 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. ^MHihrt .i;lj|*Bil BLUt-FISH FiaHino. 321 Mossbg U tack and tack, as fast a. you can go about m the :ou rrirse; aud it the god. of the deep look heu, ou vour labors, you shaU kUl a hundred at the least, m a trde. ^ Thus fish L him: To a stout cotton W of -f"^f/'* \ff a sa^d of bright tin, or bone, with a good-sized hook, X strong gimp hook-link. Make fast the end of your Ime to a :t inr
. 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. ^MHihrt .i;lj|*Bil BLUt-FISH FiaHino. 321 Mossbg U tack and tack, as fast a. you can go about m the :ou rrirse; aud it the god. of the deep look heu, ou vour labors, you shaU kUl a hundred at the least, m a trde. ^ Thus fish L him: To a stout cotton W of -f"^f/'* \ff a sa^d of bright tin, or bone, with a good-sized hook, X strong gimp hook-link. Make fast the end of your Ime to a :t inrstL't the boat, then whirl out the ^^-f,'° ^I''"^^ 1 nlth of your line, and play it with both hands alternately. The fish ; tr ke' tsolf, a^d is to bo hauled in with -egular even puU new Jeld, nor yet slacked for an instant, for if .t be, the fish wdl dis- engage himself almost certainly. When you taek your boat, if the water be shoal, haul m your line, else shall you foul it in the sea-weeds. When you have hooked your fish, raise your squid w. h the hook up^nrost, and a slight shake shaU cast him into the bottom of the ^tabvlon Islip, and Quogue, on Long Island, in Fire Island inlet, and Sue let, Shrewsbury, Squam-Beach, and Bamegat, rn New er- ZyX estuaries of the rivers in Connecticut, and the trde-ways m Boston harbor, are all favorite grounds for Blue-Frdimg. TTconclud:: there is no pleasanter summer day s a---"^ *- a merry cruise after the Blue-Fish, no pleasanter close to it than the \ 7Z the chowder, and the broUed Blue-Fish, lubricated with *7rf' Ctldds mo^t t the zest of such a day, is the presence o7 rdarm ngttau being one of the few .ports of field or fioo • V oan femininely, and therefore , participate. For Ltt X^eS-ish, say the phUosophers, efthirty po^ s ti^htLugh?doubt it. Of four andfive pounds y™ « -f L surely ; if of eight, rejoice; if of ten, smg p«ans,-for that is 5 m m. Please note that these images are extracted f
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