Favorite Fish and Fishing 



I think it was owing to Dr. Kenworty's en- 

 thusiasm in the matter that induced Colonel 

 W. H. Wood, of New York, an old striped 

 bass angler, to go to Florida to try conclu- 

 sions with the tarpon with striped bass rod 

 and tackle. At any rate, to Colonel Wood 

 belongs the credit of bringing rod fishing 

 for tarpon into the prominence and popu- 

 larity it now holds. 



The First I n the winter of 1880-1 Mr. Samuel H. 



Rod Jones, of Philadelphia, while trolling with 



the spoon in the Fort Pierce channel of 

 Indian River Inlet, hooked and landed, 

 after a contest of two hours, a tarpon weigh- 

 ing one hundred and seventy pounds with 

 striped bass rod and tackle. This was the 

 first tarpon of more than one hundred 

 pounds killed on the rod. I was at that 

 locality the following winter, and learned 

 the full particulars of the extraordinary 

 performance from Mr. Thomas Paine (son 

 of Judge Paine, of Fort Capron) , who was 

 Mr. Jones's boatman on the occasion. Af- 

 terward I received a full account of it from 

 a son of Mr. Jones, who was with him and 

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