barracooter

Updated: June 21, 2025

And I will here state, for the benefit of those navigators who have little experience in those seas, that on the edge of soundings in all parts of the West Indies, and particularly on the edges of the Bahamas and Salt Key Bank, abundance of fish of excellent quality, as black perch, kingfish, barracooter, and Spanish mackerel, may be taken by trailing during a breeze, in any reasonable quantity.

John Sherburne Sleeper - Jack in the Forecastle: or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale