Fish and Fishing 



be believed. The Eastern weakfish, known on 

 the Pacific coast as the white sea-bass, grows 

 to a weight of fifty pounds and up- 

 Pacific coast ^^^^d' '^ '^ g^™y *« ^ degree. But 

 most famous are the tuna, yellow 

 tail, barracuda, albacore, and giant black sea-bass, 

 the latter reaching 400 pounds bulk. These and 

 many other minor fish may be taken from April 

 to December in Avalon Bay down the coast to San 

 Diego. Further South, all along the Gulf coast 

 of Texas, (leaving out Mexico) from Brownsville 



to Galveston, running along past 

 and Flm-lda Louisiana to the Western peninsula 



of Florida, there are scores of an- 

 gling resorts for tarpon, jewfish, barracuda, group- 

 ers, sword-fish, and sharks. From the Florida 

 Keys, North along the eastern coast up to Jack- 

 sonville are the main fishing grounds for big 

 game. In the vicinity of the tarpon grounds, 

 palatial hotels, with every comfort, line the shore, 

 easily reached by railways, opened up within the 

 last few years. The most famous tarpon fishing 

 in Florida and Texas is at Indian River, Jupiter 

 Inlet, Miami, Bahia Honda, Fort Myres, Pine 

 Island, and Boca Grande. On the Texas coast the 

 chief places are Aransas Pass, where the tarpon 

 club is situated. Corpus Christi, Captiva, Marco, 

 Naples, and other places. 



From Jacksonville, Savannah, and Charleston 



to Norfolk, Va., at the proper season, there may 



be caught blue-fish, black-fish, hogfish, sea-bass, 



sheepshead, channel bass, king-fish, bonito, pom- 



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