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pounds, black-bass tackle is very suitable and 

 serviceable in rod, reel, line, hooks, or flies, though 

 a rather heavy braided linen line is better adapted 

 for salt water than a silk one. To be more ex- 

 plicit, an eight-ounce rod, multiplying reel, line 

 size F, Sproat hooks Nos. 2-0 to 3-0 on gut or 

 gimp snells, will be found to be just about right 

 for bait-fishing. 



For fly-fishing, a rod of eight ounces, click reel, 

 braided linen line, size E, leader of three or four 

 feet, single gut, and black-bass flies such as silver- 

 doctor, red ibis, Abbey, soldier, oriole, coachman, 

 etc., on hooks Nos. i to 2, will be found to answer 

 in skilful hands. A heavier rod may be used 

 when the fish run larger, and also flies on hooks 

 a size or two larger. Very small phantom min- 

 nows, spoons, or squids may be often used with 

 success when the fish are running in schools in 

 the spring. 



Fishing, either with fly or bait, can be practised 

 with good results at flood tide from the end of 

 long piers that extend to deep water, or at the 

 points of inlets during the running season. The 

 piers at Port Tampa and St. Petersburg, on 

 Tampa Bay, also at Mullet Key and Egmont 

 Key, or Pass-a-Grille, in the same vicinity, are 



