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. With rod and gun in New England and the Maritime provinces [microform]. Hunting; Fishing; Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Chasse; Pêche sportive. With Rod and Gun in Neiv England places in Buzzard's bay, in tiie sound, and along the south shore of Cape Cod, where good sport may generally be found. Still-fishing for bluefish is also followed to some extent, the angler anchoring his boat on the edge of a shoal, and using for bait a piece of menhaden or other small fish. With a strong rod good sport is often thus obtained, the tish making long and quick runs, and giving good play. The hook is attached to a fine wire leader, the ordinary gut snell being easily severed by the sharp teeth of the fish. The bluefish is undoubtedly the most destructive species that swims in our waters ; it kills, absolutely for the sake of killing. Rushing into a school of mackerel, or menhaden, it cuts a swath as wide as it can reach, its path being marked by a trail of blood and by the pieces of fish that it mangles and scatters around. The statement has been frequently made that it destroys more than tv/ice its own weij^ht, daily, of other fish, and it is so gluttonous that it eats to repletion, and then disgorges in order that it may again be filled. Its numbers seem to be decreasing in our waters. This decrease may be attributed partially to the scarcity of food, but probably it is owing chiefiy to the destructiveness of the pounds and weirs. " I have also had great sport with the tautog, " said the Judge; "it is often very gamy." " Yes, " I replied, " it is a species that in many localities is highly prized.". The Tautoc. "In its ordinary habits it is a bottom fish; that is, it is not a free- swimming species like the bluefish or the striped bass, but generally makes its home amid the rocks and sea-grass in the bays and estuaries, and in seeking for food confines its operations to the small crustaceans and shell- fish upon which