Big Game at Sea 



lie like sleeping monsters, huge krakens hauled upon 

 the sands basking in the sun ; but should the wind rise 

 they begin to move and a single day will so change 

 them that the landscape of one day is blotted out 

 and replaced by another. 



I have followed these dunes from the Jersey shore 

 down nearly to the mouth of the Rio Grande, and 

 they are everywhere fascinating in their shapes and 

 habit. Along the Texas and lower Florida coasts a 

 strange outer bar has formed, a long attenuated ridge 

 of sand, a series of islands formed by the so-called 

 passes, as Aransas, in Texas. On the Florida coast 

 this outside reef, island or sandy barrier forms the 

 so-called Indian River that lies between it and the 

 mainland, making possible some of the finest fishing 

 in the south. The beach of the outside island is often 

 wide, a splendid hard boulevard, and again deep 

 water approaches the shore and many kinds of big 

 fish come in. 



At the mouth of the St. John's I have had sport 

 with the channel bass, sea trout, call him what you 

 will, but for the really hard fighter of the east coast 

 of Florida one should try the waters near Palm Beach, 

 Lake Worth Inlet, Miami and various regions in the 

 vicinity of Biscayne Bay and from there down the 

 reef to Key West, and camp on the trail of the amber 

 jack. Palm Beach is perhaps the most convenient 

 place to try this fish and one of the best grounds, as 

 this fine game for some reason comes in here so 



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