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and observation as to tarpon. He observed that the fish feed 

 up with the flood tide, along the banks of the channel, and 

 Taroon settle back with the ebb. As the season pro- 

 Haunts, gresses, however, they are found farther up, in 

 the narrower parts of the river ; but in March, when the season 

 may be said to begin (though May is the best month for sport), 

 the gorge-bait fishing grounds would be where the river is per- 

 haps a mile or so wide. I have traced the tarpon forty miles 

 up the river, which would be twenty odd miles above Myers. 

 The favourite haunts are along the edges of banks of the 

 channels, in perhaps five or six feet of water, and here they 

 love to be on the alert chasing mullet. 



