Florida Fish and Fishing 



night I fastened a sprit as a ridge pole be- 

 tween the two masts, and with an awning 

 from the Grampus I housed the boat in 

 completely. 



One sunny morning I sailed from John's Sport with 

 Pass and entered Gordon's Pass, a few 

 miles south of Naples, about noon. While 

 the men were preparing dinner and getting 

 the seines and collecting outfit in readiness, 

 I had some fine sport with jewfish, running 

 from fifteen to forty pounds, on a ten-ounce 

 rod. A few hundred yards from the mouth 

 of the pass, on the south shore, where the 

 bank is very steep and crowned with pal- 

 mettos, the water is quite deep, and was a 

 favorite resort for jewfish, as heretofore 

 mentioned. 



After dinner we proceeded to haul the A Good Haul 

 long seine, and just as it was landed, filled 

 with all manner of fishes, four negroes came 

 driving up the beach in a mule cart, two 

 men and two women, to where the seine 

 was being hauled ashore. They leaped 

 out of the cart at once, consumed with curi- 

 osity as to the contents of the seine. The 

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