The big game fishes of the United States by Holder Charles Frederick 1851-1915

Author:Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fishes -- United States, Fishing -- United States
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Published: 1903-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

This grouper attains a weight of six hundred pounds, possibly more. It is found in Brazil, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the islands of the Caribbean Sea, ranging as far north as Pensacola and the mouth of the St. Johns River; on the western Gulf coast it has various names. The large individuals are called the black jewfish down the reef; smaller ones of one hundred and forty or fifty pounds, by some fishermen, black groupers. The term " black " is to some extent a misnomer, as, while the fish appears black as it rises, its real color, at least in specimens I have observed, is a deep grayish or orange brown, or olive. Along this reef, and particularly near an old wreck a mile from Bird Key in the Tortugas group, where the barrier reef deepened, I took numbers of a smaller black grouper, Mycteroperca bonaci (Poey), a fish ranging from twenty to forty-five pounds, and found them very gamy. Crayfish bait was the most alluring. The tail of a crayfish, which I grained on the open reef early in the morning, was crushed on the side, which splits the shell down the back and renders it easy to open. This was cut into two long baits. The line used was a number twenty-one, attached to a three-foot, slender, copper-wire leader or

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