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and south, several inside shallow bays, with everglade creeks running 

 into them. I have had my boat held at the mouths of the creeks, 

 north, while the tide was running in and have done very well with Bone- 

 fish ; and in the small bay, even with, and a little south of, the bank, 

 I have caught, and seen caught, Bonefish, Channel Bass, and Spotted 

 Trout. Mullet are quite plenty in the creeks coming into these bays, 

 but it is a bad place to throw a cast net, because of deep mud. 

 These bays extend on the north to Arsenecker Keys, and south quite 

 a distance ; I have not been far south in them. Between the first 

 bay, south, and Little Card Sound there is a little pass, or hole, 

 which is only ten feet or so deep, and about as wide, all covered over 

 by the branches of the mangroves, in which I caught a dozen or so 

 Snappers before they found me out. They soon quit and I could get 

 no more bites. Fiddlers are tolerably plenty on the sandy shores of 

 these bays and creeks, and a few on the main west shore. Bonefish 

 take them tolerably well. 



JEWFISH CREEK. 



EIGHT MILES FROM BONEFISH BANKS AND THIRTY-EIGHT 

 MILES FROM MIAMI. 



This creek is at the southeast corner of Barnes Sound (the next 

 body of water south of Little Card Sound), and is the only channel 

 between Barnes Sound and Black Water Bay (the next bay to the 

 south). The creek is nearly one and a half miles long, with two 

 branches leaving it part way through, all emptying near each other 

 into Black Water Bay. Mangrove bushes and trees all the way 

 through. 



The fishing in this creek and branches is A No. 1, for large Snap- 

 pers and Groupers. The water is not clear and so they are not very 

 shy. Fish all the way through on both sides, up near the roots and 

 branches of the mangroves. There are Sailor's Choice, small Group- 

 ers, and other small and medium fishes, just at the entrance of the 

 deep water on the west side. 



The tides do not affect the fishing here. Jewfish are here, if you 

 desire them. 



BOGGY. 



Black Water Bay is nearly round and will average four and one- 

 fourth miles across. Boggy is nearly west from Jewfish Creek and 



