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There is another species, known as the lady fish. It is the 



same species, I think, as that called the bone fish, or grubber, in 



The Lady ^^^ Bermudas. It is the Albula vulpes, and it is so 



Fish. prime a game fish that it elicited the praise of Dr. 

 Henshall, the famous American angler-author. He had been 

 catching in quick succession " salt-water trout," as the squete- 

 ague are called, a few red fish or channel bass, some ravallia 

 and crevalli, but his 3 lb. lady fish gave him more real sport 

 than any of the others. The specimens I caught here were 

 certainly remarkably sporting. Slender and silvery, they fought 

 as well as the black bass, and leaped from the water — not going 

 straight upwards, however, like a tarpon, but shooting out right 

 and left, as if they wanted to learn the tricks of the flying iish. 



Mrs. Ward celebrated her Good Friday inside the islands of 

 Captiva Pass by catching a large number of channel bass, and 

 so-called trout, in the slack, shallow water. My remembrance 

 of the place is principally of fishing I had by moonlight, when 

 the heat and mosquitoes gave me the agony of swollen feet 

 and general discomfort that were very trying. I lost a very 

 decent tarpon on this ground, but went out next morning at six 

 o'clock and got 20 lbs. of weak fish, two bass weighing 9 lbs. 

 each, and eight lady fish averaging 14 lbs, 



