Giant Fish of Florida 



THE CAVALLY OR " JACK " (Caranx hippos) 



The scad, or horse-mackerel, are familiar in most seas ; 

 even on the British coasts we have them. In warm latitudes, 

 however, they are beautiful as well as bold, and the combination 

 of burnished silver and metallic blues and yellows on the 

 favourite "jack " of Florida waters make him a very handsome 

 fish. Like all the horse-mackerel, he is capable of wonderful 

 bursts of speed, and takes all manner of baits, particularly those 

 not intended for him. He is not much fished for purposely, 

 but may be regarded as one of the miscellany that one time or 

 another come to the basket of the sea-fisherman at Boca Grand. 

 There is no doubt that if fished for with the fly to which he 

 will rise, so strong a fighter would show very fine sport. 



