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"I went," said Halibut, waving him to a chair. "Am I to congratulate you?" "Well, I don't know," was the reply; "perhaps not just yet." "What do you mean by that?" said the Major, irascibly. "Well, as a matter of fact," said Halibut, "she refused me, but so nicely and so gently that I scarcely minded it. In fact, at first I hardly realized that she had refused me."
Halibut are taken in similar numbers in the North Channel in May, June, and July. Pollock are taken on the western side of Campobello Island, near the eastern side of Indian Island, and at the mouth of the channel between Campobello and Casco Bay Island. In all these places are strong tidal eddies.
A small island surrounded with kelp lying about one hundred rods from shore, protects a good canoe landing in stormy weather. Here were I found racks for drying halibut, which are caught in abundance off this part of the coast. A fine clear stream about twenty feet in width entered the bay near by. Between three and four miles from shore and about the same distance south of
Hake are present here all the fall and are found all along the southeast side of these grounds in depths of 45 to 60 fathoms. A certain amount of halibut may be taken in most years at various points on a bottom of hard gravel in spring and early summer in 35 to 65 fathoms. In most years a large amount of mackerel is taken on Jeffreys, notably so in 1925.
"I shall certainly not give way," he said, calmly. "This is a matter in which my whole future is concerned. It seems very odd, not to say inconvenient, that you should have chosen the same day as myself, Brill, for such an errand very odd." "It's quite an accident," asseverated the Major; "as a matter of fact, Halibut, I nearly went yesterday.
There were no life-boats for those poor dumb animals penned down yonder in the rushing waters. Brennan had stepped into the chart-room, but returned in a moment to say: "There's no place to beach her this side of Halibut Bay." "How far is that?" "Five or six miles." "You'll have to beach her?" "I'm afraid so. She feels queer."
The fishermen gaffed the halibut and pulled him into the dory, though it nearly swamped them, for the fish weighed over three hundred and fifty pounds. It's rather a queer story, I think, but it is reported as official." Colin whistled. "My word!" he said. "It must have been a big one, because a halibut is flat, like a flounder, isn't it?" "Yes, it's the largest of the flatfish.
Riddel, and it was quite clear to the beholders that she had realized neither the ambiguity of her question nor the meaning of her opponent's reply. "Well, you may have it," she said, brightly. Before Miss Philpotts could lay down her work, before Mr. Halibut could interpose, the Major took possession of Mrs. Riddel's small white hand and raised it gallantly to his lips. Mrs.
I thought it my duty to go straight home and tell uncle she was up in the church, kissing and cuddling with Jack Halibut; and he took his stick and started off after her. But he met them at the garden gate, and Jack, he came forward, and he says 'Mr.
The principal fish taken here are cod, haddock, and cusk, but hake, pollock and halibut occur, the best fishing months being from May to October, when the bank is resorted to by craft from western Nova Scotia. A few New England craft also fish here. La Have Bank. Situated eastward of Browns Bank and S. and E. of Roseway Bank.
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