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Title: The fishes of the east Atlantic coast, that are caught with hook and line
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Van Doren, Louis Otis, 1863- Clarke, Samuel C Kenworthy, Charles James
Subjects: Fishes -- Atlantic Coast Fishing -- United States
Publisher: New York, The American angler
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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suit to anglers on the Florida coast, - From its opentvay of fighting, if the angler has one hundred yards of good line onhis reel, and is not impatient, he is pretty sure of killing his fish, upto forty pounds. The hand-line fisherman who works by maink. Irength is apt to lose the big ones. The same sort of tackle that is used in Northern waters for stripedbass, answers well for the red bass, except that a sinker of one ortwo ounces weight is used here in casting from the reel, and it is un-necessary to use gut or delicate tackle, and gut is more apt to be cutby the oyster shells which cover the bottom in the best places, thana length of line which we use for a snood. A bass of twenty-five to forty pounds will consume from twentyto forty minutes in the capture with rod and reel, the old rule ofone minute to the pound holding good with this fish. The writerhas taken some hundreds in various ways—on the bottom, with afloat at mid-water, and on the surface with spoon or feathers—and
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FISHES OF THE EAST ATLANTIC COAST. HI considers that from its abundance, its free biting, and its method offair lighting when hooked, the red bass is on tlie whole the mostvahiable of the Southern game fishes. Twenty-five to thirty red bass have been killed by one rod in aday en the Halifax River, weighing in the aggregate some 200 to350 pounds., The largest bass ever taken by the writer weighed thir-ty-seven pounds, and the struggle lasted about forty minutes. Itwas taken from a boat, and the fish towed us nearly a hundred yardsbefore it came to gaff. Its mate, weighing over twenty-five pounds,was soon after taken by my boatman. The next in size captured byme weighed thirty pounds, and its mate, weighing twenty-eightpounds, was hooked directly after by my companion in the boat,also a rod fisher, and the contest went on for thirty or forty min-utes at each end of the boat. The mouth of the red bass is tough,requiring a smart stroke to fasten the hook, but once fastened thehold seldom

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