Favorite Fish and Fishing 



our attention to those of larger growth, in- 

 cluding such jumbos as barracuda, tarpon, 

 jewfish, sharks and sawfish. 

 Florida Some of these were taken with rod and 



"Grains" y^^^^ ^^^ Other means were resorted to for 



the largest ones. Pent was an expert In 

 the use of the " grains," a two-pronged 

 spear much employed in Florida. It has 

 a long and strong line attached to the spear, 

 with a handle for throwing which becomes 

 detached when a fish Is struck. Standing 

 In the bow of the dory, which I would pad- 

 dle cautiously up to the fringe of bushes 

 along the shore. Pent would hurl the grains 

 twenty, thirty or even forty feet, and sel- 

 dom failed to plant the barbs firmly In the 

 back of a huge fish as It lay sunning Itself 

 under the mangroves — then there was 

 something doing for ten or fifteen minutes. 

 Some Big Fish The largest barracuda we captured meas- 

 ured six and one-half feet, the largest tar- 

 pon seven and one-quarter, an Immense saw- 

 fish nineteen, and a man-eating shark fifteen 

 feet. But the liveliest tussle we had was 

 with a devil-fish of moderate dimensions, 

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