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Some of my friends are experimenters, and of these one is 

 very lazy. It is about a hundred and eighty miles from Miami 

 to Key West over the famed "Highway That Goes to Sea." This 

 thoroughfare, besides furnishing some of the most dazzling 

 marine-scapes in the world, crosses many scores of bridges the 

 shortest of which is a few feet across, the longest seven miles. 

 These bridges connect the Keys and carry the road over such 

 waters as we have just been discussing. Plain bottom-fishing with 

 shrimp for bait provides most bridges with a quota of anglers. 

 My lazy friend, who does not cast but who likes to troll, realizing 

 that the running tide would keep his bait clear of the bridge 

 bastions, now carries a bicycle in his car. It is his practice to rig 

 up a bait, drop it over the bridge rail, mount his bike, and ride 

 sedately along the rail, trolling. He has caught a good many fish 

 in that fashion but he has one problem: when he hooks a big 

 one a mile or so from the shore end of a bridge, he has to battle 

 it the long way back before he can land it for the line he uses 

 will lift nothing over twelve pounds. 



Another gentleman, known personally to me, conceived the 

 notion doubtless on a day when fishing was slow of looking for 

 them in an autogyro and harpooning them from the wing of 

 same. It was some time ago and I presume that today he would 

 employ a helicopter; but he did manage to harpoon a shark, 

 several 'cudas, and one loggerhead turtle all of which were 

 retrieved by a boat following below. This method, though inter- 

 esting, is expensive and somewhat hazardous. 



I have heard suggestions made for trolling from blimps and 

 the blimp which takes passengers for a sky ride from Miami's 

 causeway uses its shadow to scare and pursue porpoises and 

 sharks. But, again, the blimp angler would run the risk of 

 hanging a fish that would pull the blimp down, rather than the 

 fish up. 



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