Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 742
t from my pre-vious experience in fishing for trout in the littlebrooks near my home. I used to fish all day andnot get more than two or three trout, and often Iwould not get one. Those that 1 did catch werenot more than four or five inches long. I guesssome of my boy readers have had the same… … MACKIiREL-BOATS. with one line, the other had sunk some twelve orfifteen feet down where the sculpins dwelt. When mackerel are inclined to take the bait,they are usually close to the surface of the water.They began now to bite with the greatest eager-ness, and gave us all the work that we could…
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