Identifier: favoritefishfish00hens (find matches)
Title: Favorite fish and fishing
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
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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all he can attend toafter hooking one on light tackle. As foodfishes they are excellent. I prefer to fishfrom the sand-spits at the mouths of inlets,or if near a pier to fish from a boat mooredalongside, as the fish are not so likely to seeone, and they are more easily landed. Bait Fishing Ordinary black bass tackle is quite suit- able for either fish, with fly or bait.Braided linen lines are preferable, however,to silk ones, as the latter soon rot in saltwater. A gut leader about four feet longand snelled hooks, Nos. i to 3, are all rightfor bait-fishing. The best bait is a smallsardine, anchovy or mullet, though thecasting spoon, with a single hook, or apearl squid of small size may be used ifkept in constant motion on the surface. Fiy-Fishing For fly-fishing a single fly is sufficient, of any bright pattern, with some gilt or silvertinsel on the body, as the silver doctor, tiedon No. 3 hooks. A long-handled landing-net is indispensable. The kingfish—not the fish known by that148
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Florida Fish and Fishing name In Northern waters, but a second cou- The KingfishSin to the Spanish mackerel—is round along cavaiia)the reefs from Cape Florida to Boca Chlca.It Is one of the principal food fishes of KeyWest, and Is taken by the fishermen trollingwith a strip of bacon rind, which Is some-thing In the nature of an Indignity, for Itis a grand game-fish on the rod, and willtake fly or bait on long casts. It growsmuch larger than the Spanish mackerel,often to twent)^ pounds or more, and Is ofa more somber hue. Its cousin, the cero.Is very similar In size and appearance, buthas dark spots along its graceful sides. Allof this genus are among the best for thetable, as all real game-fishes are. The best member of the drum family Is The Redfishthe redlish, or channel bass. It Is one of oceiiatus/the common game-fishes of the brackishwater bays on either coast. It is a hand-some fish with a coat of old red gold and avest of silver and pearl. It Is characterizedby a large black

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