American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . eighed over 50 pounds,and every fish made a play of from 15 to 30 minutes that can only bedescribed by the term magnificent. There is a difference in individuals,but one 51-pound bass, taken after a 25-minute contest, I believe, gaveme more pleasure than any catch 1 ever made. The fish played entirely on the surface, and I only saved it by theskill and quick movements of my boatman as the fish repeatedlyrushed a
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture . eighed over 50 pounds,and every fish made a play of from 15 to 30 minutes that can only bedescribed by the term magnificent. There is a difference in individuals,but one 51-pound bass, taken after a 25-minute contest, I believe, gaveme more pleasure than any catch 1 ever made. The fish played entirely on the surface, and I only saved it by theskill and quick movements of my boatman as the fish repeatedlyrushed around the boat. This fish is a beautiful creature in bronzeand old-gold tints, and is well called the Santa Catalina salmon, havinga close resemblance to that fish and being its equal in every way. Theequipment used is, so far as line is concerned, the same as for thetuna, though 1 prefer a lighter line and a lighter rod. Flying-fish orlarge smelt is the killing bait, trolled slowly along not 50 feet from theshore. All my catches were made in Avalon Bay not 200 feet fromshore, and around the first week in May. Cyiioscion nothiis, which is usually called the bastard weakfish, is. a well-marked species, differing in numerous respects from the othersof the genus. It occurs on our South Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and isa good food-fish. Colour, grayish silvery, thickly punctulate aboveand on sides to level of pectorals, then abruptly silvery, a row of darkpoints marking the line of division; snout and tip of lower jaw black-ish ; mouth white within; lower fins white, the upper dusky. C. reticulatiis, the corvina, is found from Mazatlan to reaches a length of 3 feet and is a common food-fish on the Pacificcoast of Mexico. 459 The Mademoiselles C. parvipinuis, the California bluefish, is found on our Pacificcoast from the Santa Barbara Islands to Guaymas and Mazatlan. It iscommon as far north as San Pedro, and is an excellent food-fish, notinferior to the squeteague. Colour,
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