FLORIDA FISH AND FISHING 



A^ the yuletide, or during the Christmas At the Yuietide 

 holidays, the lakes and streams of 

 the North and West are locked fast in the 

 icy chains of winter. The waters are then 

 a sealed book to the angler, who, unless he 

 indulges in the questionable sport of fishing 

 through the ice, is consoled only by retro- 

 spective pleasures when overhauling his 

 rods and flybooks. Not so, however, in 

 the sunny waters of Florida, where fishing 

 is, on the whole, at its best at the time of 

 the Christmas -festivities, if such a season 

 can be realized by the Northern angler 

 amid the profusion of fruits, flowers, and 

 foliage. 



To one accustomed to the merry jingle A Pleasant 

 of sleigh bells and to coursing swiftly, steel 

 shod, over the frozen pools he loves so 

 well, it is really a marvelous, but pleasing, 

 transition to be able to cast his bait or flies 

 during the season of the yuletide. 

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