Bait and Grounds 421 



never visited the grounds, I take the liberty to 

 copy : 



" There is many a man who, if he knew of it, 

 would be glad to come a thousand miles to 

 wrestle with a jackfish or shark or tarpon, stand- 

 ing on a granite rock six miles out in the Gulf 

 of Mexico. 



" It is strange that so few fishermen know of 

 the fishing we have at Galveston. There is no 

 other place in America that deep-sea fishing can 

 be had for the rod and reel from a comfortable 

 footing on a flat rock, many of the rocks from 

 six to eight feet square, and so adjacent that you 

 can follow along for a hundred yards if you wish. 

 The jetties are some nine miles from the wharves, 

 just far enough to keep out the pot-fishers, yet 

 within an hour's run for a good launch. The 

 Tarpon Club is small and has only one boat, but 

 it is a fine seaworthy launch, carrying a dozen 

 fishermen. It leaves for the jetties every day at 

 one o'clock when the weather is suitable for 

 fishing, and nearly every day some of the mem- 

 bers go at four o'clock in the morning and get 

 back in time to do a day's work. We have an en- 

 thusiastic set of fishermen who are always glad to 

 welcome the stranger within our gates, who is of 



