[Ads-l] 1904 bazooka

[Stephen Goranson]

Field and Stream, 8th year, no. 9, January 1904, p.744 col 2,

SOME BIG FISHES....


The fishermen on the banks [of Sandy Hook, presumably NJ] nickname a cod of fifteen pounds a "bird"; one of twenty a "beaut";  of twenty-five a "buster"; of thirty a "darling"; of thirty-five a "bazooka." A thirty-nine and three-quarter pounder was caught last season.


https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015024483441;view=1up;seq=52


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