The fishes of the east Atlantic coast, that are caught with hook and line

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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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er—say from twentyto fifty in a tide, and they afford good sport on a rod with clams orcrabs for bait. Bluefish from two ounces to two pounds in weightare sometime* abundant, the same ferocious, snapping, greedy fishwhich on the Northern coast affords so much sport to the fisherman,and which chops up such multitudes of small fish. Blackfish seldomgo over a pound, but are abundant, and excellent meat, as fatherWalton says. Whiting run from three ounces to a pound, and af-ford fine sport with light tackle, being a very strong and active fish.The Lafayette, or sjjot, is abundant but small—average four ounces.All this seems to show that these species are hatched in Southernwaters ; and go North in summer to feed and grow. *In addition to these valuable food and game fishes, we encounterothers which might be called the obstructive, or dangerous species—•those which destroy our tackle and give us trouble and annoyance.Such are the sharks, the rays, the sawfishes and the congers. •
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CHAPTER X. The Sharks.—The Sawiish. Sharks.—Several species are lound on the Florida coast ; thecommon brown, or dusky shark, the shovel-nose, the hammer-head,the sand shark, the nurse shark. In warm weather most of theseare abundant, ferocious and troublesome. They cannot bear coldweather, and it sometimes happens in the spring, when a warm spellhas brought the sharks from the Gulf Stream to the coast that a sud-den fall in the temperature destroys many of these delicate mon-sters. The common brown shark grows to the length of eight ornine feet, and destroys great quantities of fish. When abundant,they, like the wolves, take courage from their numbers, and becomebold and aggressive, although usually they are cowardly for creaturesof their size and strength. At such times they will take large bassand other fish away from the angler as he plays £hem. They aresure to take the bait if they see it, and when hooked the shark takesa turn near the surface, and usually cuts off the hook,

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