Popular Salt=Water Game Fish 



buoyed so that it can be tossed over the moment 

 the strike comes. Various baits are used, a Hve 

 whitefish, or one-half a barracuda, also three or 

 four pounds of albacore. These are taken on or 

 very near the bottom. 



At times there is a long and tedious wait for 

 the strike, and when it does come, it is slow and 

 deliberate, as becomes so dignified and portly a 

 personage; after about twenty feet of line is gone 

 and the bait properly in its mouth, a good solid 

 strike is made; then the angler must be prepared 

 for a violent shock, so strong and heavy, that it is 

 enouo-h to turn the boat completely 

 Fishinff round and away in an instant, the reel 

 working at utmost speed; the question 

 of the length of time that the battle lasts depends 

 entirely upon the size of the fish and the expert 

 way in which the angler plays it; some bring it 

 alongside in a remarkably short time for so heavy 

 a quarry. It is then gaffed, the boat heeled over 

 to the edge of the water, and the fish rolled in. 



The Florida jewfish is found all along shore on 

 the Indian River and various places round the 

 peninsula. It grows to an immense 

 Jewfish size and is caught near shore at the 



Grouper town of Tarpon, Aransas Pass. 



Its capture is identical with that of 

 the sea-bass and the play is the same except that 

 they have a habit of running to a deep cavern in 

 the rocks and there sulking. 



What is known as the large black grouper, also 

 caught on the Florida Keyes, attains a weight of 

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