A BOOK OF FISHING STORIES 



engine. An ever-increasing number of anglers come from all 

 parts of the world to enjoy this April sport in the Pass, and 

 among them several ladies, some of whom, including my 

 wife, I have seen holding on to the great fish with a deter- 

 mination worthy of their sex. It is said, indeed, that the record 

 for the biggest tarpon ever caught on rod and line is held by 

 a lady, but so many people have caught the biggest tarpon 

 that I personally believe the best authenticated record in the 

 tarpon line to be held by Mr. A. T. G. Parkinson, who, fishing 

 with a fly in the Alva River, once caught a baby tarpon eighteen 

 inches in length and weighing a pound and a half. Those of 

 us, however, who travel six or seven thousand miles out and 

 back for an Easter holiday in the Pass want the big things, and 

 few return disappointed. Fishing is always a lottery, else it 

 would not be the sport it is, but I know of few expeditions 

 less likely to result in failure than that to the tarpon grounds 

 of Boca Grande. 



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