THE FINEST SPORT IN THE WORLD 



on the outside beach at Captiva and unless your 

 strength of mind is greater than mine you will 

 not be able to leave for a week. Your first work 

 in the morning will be to get some needle fish for 

 bait. They swim along the beach and you will 

 stun them with shot or a bullet and grab them 

 before they recover. It is not the conventional 

 bait, but a tarpon will climb a tree for a needle 

 fish. With a professional guide you would get 

 more fish at first, but you wouldn't have a 

 quarter of the fun. You will waste some time at 

 the whirlpool where the tarpon are always rising 

 but where they never bite. You will lose a little 

 time in learning where it is best to fish, but your 

 muscles will be sore each night from the tarpon 

 you have played each day. 



Sometimes a grouper or channel bass will take 

 your tarpon bait, and always there will be more 

 than enough for the larder. You will be glad of 

 the days when high winds make the pass too 

 rough for fishing, for an occasional rest feels 

 good and beach combing and shell gathering is 

 resting. Then you will paddle up Charlotte 

 Harbor, keeping under the lee of Lacosta Island, 

 and stop at Faulkner's bee farm and taste his 



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