Tarpon Fishing in Florida 



me on this day, so as not to throw away 

 any chances, and suggested to my man the 

 advisability of lashing on my reels ; but he 

 scoffed at the idea. Out went the hooks 

 well furnished with fresh mullet, and 

 again we abandoned ourselves to waiting. 

 Again, too, we waited in vain ; waited in 

 the hot sun, for it was warm at last, and I 



was glad to don my new shade-hat. We 

 had no bites ; and yet the situation was tol- 

 erably exciting, from the fact that every 

 now and then a tarpon would spring out 

 of water on one side of us or the other, 

 and fall back with a grand splash, never 

 very near to us, and yet sufficiently so to 

 fill us with hope of better things, although, 

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