THE BOOK OF THE TARPON 



man's supply shop in New York and asking for 

 a tarpon outfit. Then if he sticks to his text and 

 doesn't let the dealer saddle him with anything 

 irrelevant, from an alforjas to a yacht stove, he 

 will get back enough change to tip his waiter at 

 lunch. His outfit will be complete from his 

 forty-odd dollar jewelled reel and four-dollar 

 lines down to the thermos bottle that is to keep 

 his milk cool while he fishes. 



Some of the tackle which we used on our photo- 

 graphic trip was first class, but after we had 

 broken two rods and spoiled a reel, we did good 

 work with a twenty-five cent bamboo pole, a four- 

 dollar reel, hooks at seventy-five cents a hundred, 

 and No. 13 piano wire which I bought at seventy 

 cents a pound in New York after paying a dealer 

 at the rate of seven dollars a pound for the same 

 thing. Our hand line fishing was done with 

 soft cotton line about one-sixteenth of an inch 

 in diameter. It was found necessary to supple- 

 ment this with canvas gloves or mittens. 



Aside from photographic paraphernalia, the 

 cost to two people of a trip like this can be as 

 little as they choose to make it, if they are willing 

 to do the ordinary work of the easiest kind of 



