aren't being caught because your hook is far too big. Get a 

 minnow hook and use a rice-grain-sized bait and you may find 

 yourself battling a g-pound angel-fish. Yours for the price 

 of a glass-bottomed bucket is a brand-new Indian sign on the 

 fish you can see them, but they don't recognize you. 



Such are a few of the means of fishing in Florida which 

 while not always conventional are highly rewarding. And the 

 moment you begin to fish from boats, or along the beach, or 

 on banks you will spot others who will be ready, if asked, to 

 lead you to novel methods and to new quarry. As an angler who 

 has written a good deal about "big-time" or deep-sea fishing, I 

 was once advised by a reader to "get off my charter boat and go 

 fishing on a bridge." Some dispute between that gentleman and 

 myself arose but I was able to squelch him finally by advising 

 him to get off his bridge and fish under it. He hadn't tried that 

 one yet. 



No telling where or how you might get a fish. One pal of mine 

 a gent with salt water of an icy degree in his veins not only 

 goes goggle-fishing (diving, with goggles and a hand spear) but 

 when he has speared a fish he rides up to it hand-over-hand on 

 the spear line and wrestles it to the surface. He has done this 

 with 50-pound amber jacks turning their heads up by sheer 

 muscle, forcing the frantic fish to carry itself and the man on its 

 back to the top. And he has done it out on the big reefs, amidst 

 the 20-foot sharks and the barracudas. If you are confident in 

 yourself, strong, and don't give a damn what happens, there's 

 one you might try. 



Fishing in a chartered boat with expert guides is fun. A blue 

 marlin of several hundred pounds on a rod and reel provides 

 exhilaration difficult to compare, but they don't bite every min- 

 ute. It took me six years of trying to get one blue marlin and I 

 lost eight in that period. Still if the sailfish aren't running, king 

 mackerel and bonita will give you excitement. 



One last tip about that casting rod. Take it along on the 

 charter boat if you go to the Gulf Stream. Maybe you'll feel 

 sillier than a man carrying a small fire extinguisher to Hell but 

 take it. If you happen to run into a school of little dolphin, or 



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