A weak-mouthed fish, that easily tears away from the hook. It is found off our coast all the way from Maine to Florida, and from June to November. Usual weight from one to four pounds. Occasionally one of twenty and twenty-five pounds has been captured. The flesh is of secondary quality. Weak-fish are savagely pursued by the mightier Blue-fish, and from year to year, since the advent of the Blues, have become scarcer in our markets. They move in shoals, entering inlets and bays and the tidal parts of rivers, but do not ascend to fresh-water heads of streams. In New York bays they are chased by Porpoises. Weak-fish bite sharpest at ebb-tide, and are angled for in shoal water.

Tackle: stiff rod from eight to nine feet; line of linen, two hundred to three hundred feet; leader of gut; hook, No.i Kirby, snelled ; sinker with swivel; bait, shrimp, crab, clam, Menhaden. Troll with squids.