. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. 104 THE " The in-shore cod, as on the Great Banks, are caught with a line in two to six and eight fathoms of water, where the tide ebbs and Hows with considerable force over rocky soundings. Pleasure boats are often successful in hauling one or two hundred in a day, weighing from one to fifteen pounds. Those lar^e specimens seen occasionally in the stalls, are procured further
. American angler's guide : or, complete fisher's manual, for the United States: containing the opinions and practices of experienced anglers of both hemispheres ; with the addition of a second Fishing. 104 THE " The in-shore cod, as on the Great Banks, are caught with a line in two to six and eight fathoms of water, where the tide ebbs and Hows with considerable force over rocky soundings. Pleasure boats are often successful in hauling one or two hundred in a day, weighing from one to fifteen pounds. Those lar^e specimens seen occasionally in the stalls, are procured further out at sea. "In the spring, the cod seems uncommonly voracious; for however unsuccessful it may have been in snatching the bait from the hook, and notwithstanding the mouth may have been lacerated, it seizes with avidity the very next it discov- ers. Wounds heal in a few days, so that however badly the skin is torn, the gelarive of the blood is poured in so copiously as to close the breach much sooner than the healing process is completed in warm-blooded animals. " Two or three years since, the keeper of Rainsford Island caught a cod which had suspended to about a yard of line, a lead weight of several pounds, the other end being secured to a hook which was deeply imbedded in the bones and in- teguments of the upper jaw. How long the fish had been dragging about the inconvenient burden, it was difficult to decide," One of the most important features in this fish, is its astonishing fecundity. Leuwenhock has had the patience to count nine millions of eggs in a single cod; and although hundreds of millions of these eggs are hourly destroyed by the fishermen, who take them at all seasons, and their more voracious brethren of the ocean, who feed upon them—still, says a French writer, on the subject of their prolific powers. we have assurance of an inexhaustible supply of wholesome food, secured to all succeeding generations. The best bait for a pleasure party cod-
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