Florida Fish and Fishing 



single hook, or a small shell squid, may 

 often be employed with advantage, as well 

 as a small, bright artificial fly. 



The fishing may be practiced from a boat 

 anchored just within the inlet, or from the 

 sand-spits at its mouth. At other stages of 

 the tide, especially at high water slack, good 

 fishing may be had in the shallow water 

 of grassy flats and sandy shoals, by making 

 long casts, for in such situations these fishes 

 are quite shy. 



The snook is a good game-fish, strong and The Snook 

 active, rises to the fly in shallow water, and 

 will take any kind of fish or crab bait, or 

 the trolling-spoon. It is shaped somewhat 

 like the pike-perch, with the flattened head 

 and jaws of the pike minus its sharp teeth. 

 It is attired in a silvery mantle with a 

 broad, black stripe running along the side 

 from head to tail. It is a fair food-fish 

 if skinned instead of scaled. It is known 

 as snook on the east coast, and as rovallia 

 on the west coast, a corruption of its Cuban 

 name, robalo. It grows to two or three 

 feet and twenty to thirty pounds. Heavy 



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