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sport is found a warmer fellow-feeling, greater 

 hospitality, and more courteous camaraderie than 

 among the gentlemen of the rod on the great 

 fishing-grounds of America. 



To Dr. H. W. Howe of the city of Mexico and 

 Mr. J. A. L. Waddell of Kansas City, anglers are 

 indebted for information regarding the midwinter 

 tarpon fishing at Tampico, Mexico, an unsigned 

 and interesting paper on the subject appearing in 

 Modern Mexico in May, 1901, to which I am in- 

 debted for the data herewith given. Dr. Howe 

 wrote me that he has hooked several tarpons here 

 which he could not handle ; hence, the tarpons of 

 Tampico are of large size. The season is from 

 November i to April, the time when the tarpon 

 practically disappears from Florida and Texas. 

 The tarpons are not only very large but are found 

 in vast numbers. Some mornings during his 

 visits there could be seen hundreds of fishes 

 within fifteen minutes by boat from the hotel. 

 Mr. Waddell in eleven days in December at 

 Tampico landed twenty-four tarpons, fifty-nine 

 jack-fish, and two jewfish, weighing in all thirty- 

 five hundred pounds; the largest tarpon meas- 

 ured six feet ten inches. In March he landed 

 six tarpons here in one day. Mr. A. B. Ross in 



