8 WHERE, WHEN, AXD HOW TO CATCH FISH 



miles up the Miami River, Cocoanut Grove, and other places of inter- 

 est, passing on south, inside, stopping at Cape Florida, Soldier Key, 

 Ragged Keys, Sands Cut (called by Capt. Zellers, the Aquarium), 

 Caesar's Creek (a pass into the ocean), then outside to Indian Key, 

 where we fished around Alligator Lighthouse, four and one-half 

 miles off the Key, for Barracouda, catching seven, trolling with squids 

 from rowboats. 



Mr. Borden took one of forty-six pounds, my largest weighing 

 twenty-four pounds. 



Our next stop was inside Long's Key, from whence we sailed, 

 across the Bay of Florida to Cape Sable, forty-five miles, from which 

 point we proceeded up the West Coast, stopping at Shark Creek, 

 Whitewater Bay, Horse Creek, Chuckaluska, Marco, and some other 

 unimportant creeks and bays, finally running into Punta Rassa, on 

 Charlotte Harbor, through San Carlos Pass. 



We devoted about two weeks to Charlotte Harbor and Ostero Bay, 

 five miles to the south, catching many kinds of fishes, including Tar- 

 pon, in the harbor and bay. Mr. Borden also caught Tarpon at Marco. 



In addition to the above cruise, I have made four fishing trips to 

 the West Coast, having spent some days, or weeks, at each of the fol- 

 lowing places : Homosassa, on the Homosassa River ; Tarpon 

 Springs, on the Anclote River ; Duneden, Clear Water, Johns Pass, 

 Pass a Grille, and Disston City, on Clearwater Harbor; St. Peters - 

 burgh, Port Tampa, and Tampa, on Tampa Bay ; Sarasota, on Sara- 

 sota Bay ; Punta Gorda, Pease Creek, St. James City (on Pine 

 Island), Punta Rassa, on Charlotte Harbor; and Fort Meyers, on the 

 Caloosa River. 



I have also visited the following points on the Gulf of Mexico : 

 Pass Christian three times, one visit of two months ; Bay St. Louis, 

 Wolf River, English Lookout at mouth of Pearl River, Biloxi, Ocean 

 Springs and Pensacola. 



In the above account I have purposely refrained from giving details 

 of the fishing at the different places visited, because the account was 

 written partly to show the basis for Capt. Gardner's and my own 

 knowledge of the subject in hand ; and, in addition, because I 

 intend to give all the detail when I describe the fishes and the locali- 

 ties where they are caught. And, as a still more potent reason for 

 avoiding detail, I did not desire to tell "any big fish stories," thus 

 raising the expectations of my readers by recounting the condition of 



