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for Channel Bass, large and small. Large-mouth Black Bass are taken 

 in nearly every fresh-water stream emptying into the St. Johns from 

 its mouth to its source, some of them near Mayport. 



ATLANTIC BEACH. 



This place is seven miles south of Mayport, is the site of the 

 new Continental Hotel of the Florida East Coast Hotel system, and 

 is, of course, a railroad station. Channel Bass can be caught here 

 during the summer months, either off the pier, " heaving and haul- 

 ing," as the hand-line method in the surf is called, or with rod and 

 reel, or by same methods in the surf. Occasionally while fishing for 

 Bass you will get some of the other fishes mentioned at Mayport. 

 Pompano can be taken in nets through the summer months. 



Sportsmen staying here can take the train to Mayport, at several 

 different hours during the day, and can "fish the tide," or remain 

 longer if they please, and return to the hotel for dinner ; or they can 

 drive to and from Mayport, if they prefer. 



SAN PABLO OR PABLO BEACH. 



This place is three miles south of Atlantic Beach, on the railroad, 

 and has long been an " all-the-year-round " resort. The fishing is 

 the same in the surf as at Atlantic Beach, with the same facilities for 

 the trip to Mayport. I was there about the middle of May this year, 

 1901, when the hotel was being supplied with Pompano caught in 

 the surf with nets. 



