These splendid fish which have become quite abundant at times on our coast of late years, are shy and difficult to capture. They were occasionally taken while trolling for blue fish, but we have sale. hrough miles of them and scarcely induced a half dozen to bite at the artificial squid. Persons have devoted their special attention to finding some line that would satisfy their dainty views, but with only moderate and partial success. They are wonderfully active and powerful, leaping from the water in long graceful curves like the mythical fishes of "Fairyland" and not like trout, salmon and blue fish, which either makes a quick snap or splash on the surface of the water, or jump a short distance out and up above it, falling back on the tails or sides, as often as on their heads. But the Spanish Mackerel pursue their prey, the small bony fish or moss-bunkers and the spearing, with such velocity, that they throw themselves in a long arc out of water, when the latter rush to the surface and leap from it in their frantic efforts to escape. By this peculiarity, they can be distinguished from their coarser brethren the blue fish, and may be followed with the sail boat. On the South coast of Long Island, we have seen them "breaking in this way over miles square of water and have sailed by millions of them. The most successful troll is a squid made of red bone and with this as many as a hundred have occasionally been caught by the anglers being on the ground or rather water early in the morning. This red bone has a hook run through it in the ordinary way, and it is trolled behind a sail boat precisely in the same manner that blue fish are trolled. They are probably the finest fish for the table that are drawn from the salt or the fresh water and they are worthy of all the labor and patience required to catch them.