The Cape Malay is a fisherman bred and born, and at certain seasons of the year they have a great harvest of fish of all kinds.* Sometimes Table Bay is visited by shoals of snook, a large fish something like a salmon in shape, but a coarser fish. The natives have a novel mode of catching them besides trawling. They go out in small boats, holding perhaps four or five fishermen, with lines Armed with a club somewhat like a police truncheon, the fishermen pulls up his fish on the hook, and, with great dexterity, he will strike the I fish on its head, and drop it into the boat ; he is careful to keep the fish under his arm in doing this, with its head to the front of him.
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 8
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