Florida Fish and Fishing 



in batter, when it is very toothsome. I Some Big Ones 

 helped capture one on a shark line at Jupi- 

 ter Light on the east coast in 1878 that 

 weighed three hundred and forty pounds on 

 the light-house steelyard, and United States 

 Senator Quay was a witness to the weigh- 

 ing. I was also particeps crhninis in taking 

 on a shark line another that weighed three 

 hundred pounds, at Little Gasparilla inlet, 

 on the Gulf coast, in the same year. And 

 farther up the coast, at Gordon's Pass, near 

 Naples, I killed a number on the rod that 

 weighed from twenty to sixty pounds. A 

 decade ago the south shore of this inlet, 

 under the palmetto trees which grew on the 

 steep bank, was a noted place for jewfish, 

 and much frequented by Col. Haldeman 

 and other Kentucky gentlemen who had 

 winter residences at Naples. 



Another jewfish, a tropical species {Pro- 

 microps itaiara) ^ growing even larger than 

 the one named, is also found in Florida 

 waters. 



I do not mean the universal and ubiqui- Catching 

 tous sucker so well known from Maine to 

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