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Tarpon Fishing in Mexico. 



and Tampico in the winter months, and gradually work their way 

 up along the coast of Texas, where some excellent hshing is 

 obtainable round about Corpus Christi. Hence they travel 

 southwards along the west coast of Florida, and appear in force 

 off the southernmost point in June and July. Hence still hugging 

 the coast they turn north and are found among the islands of the 

 East Coast. The best if not the only way to fish these waters 

 is to hire a small yacht at Miami, which is on the railway. 



There are, too, a great number of tarpon round the coasts of 

 Cuba, but they run small. The following figures, which were 

 taken from the records of the fish caught from the hotel Hidalgo 

 during the season 1 904-1 905 will give a tolerably accurate idea of 

 the size of the fish in the Panuco river. 



Thus there were 831 tarpon captured from this hotel alone, 

 and many others were put back into the water uncounted. 



The sportsman who catches two fish out of every five that 

 strike is, in the opinion of the writer, doing very well. On this 

 assumption there were some 2,077 strikes. 



From the same hotel in 



December 1904 62 tarpon were caught. 

 January 1905 112 ,, 



