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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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nd Fishing California, but the so-called shark-sucker,suckfish or remora. Perhaps every genuineAmerican boy has exercised his proud privi-lege of catching suckers In the glad spring-time, and some have doubtless continued thesport in later life in Wall Street and othersimilar fishing localities. But very few haveever caught the shark-sucker or remora.To be exact I never knew of any one butmyself who ever took one with hook andline. It happened in this way. My boat wasanchored in Sarasota Bay, Florida, whenone day I was examining the pintles andrudder hinges before sailing, when I no-ticed several remoras attached to the sternof the vessel. With a hook and hand-lineand venison for bait I caught them all, fourof them. In less than four minutes, for theywere exceedingly voracious. When the baitw^as dangled near one he immediately lefthis anchorage and seized it. The remora is one of the most interest-ing fishes known to science. Its first dorsalfin is developed as a sucking disk of an160
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