About two
o'clock
Cod and bass , and now and then a halibut , as fast as we could bait and pull ! There was soon a lively flopping in our craft , and now and then a dog-fish would take hold , much to our annoyance , for generally he broke the hook or line , or else , if we got him in , made such a furious lashing about our legs that we had to finish him with a hatchet . We lay at anchor there until we had had fishing enough . About two o'clock we stopped , having caught , as near as the Captain could estimate , between one and two hundred pounds of cod , a dog-fish , and eleven sea-bass -- not the striped bass , such as we took off the rocks with a troll line in rough water : that was the _ Labrax lineatus _ ; but the sea-bass , the _ Centropristes nigricans _ , superior in title , but inferior in every other way to the striped bass . It was a job to pitch the fish together and out of the way , and then clean the blood , slime , and wet from our deck and get ready for making sail ; but after some work it was done , and our lines stowed away . `` Now , boys , '' said the Captain , `` we will have dinner , and get under way again . As the wind has hauled around to the east , we will take our course for the north .