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SEA FISHING 



KNOWING that the period of a man's 

 hard-riding days is limited, I prepared for 

 the inevitable some years since by making 

 a pastime of sea-fishing. I have fished 

 for most fish that swim in the American 

 waters, both in the Atlantic and in the 

 Pacific. The fish that interests me the 

 most is the tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) . 

 I have fished for the tarpon in Florida 

 waters every month in the year excepting 

 in midsummer, all along the Gulf of Mexico 

 as far as Aransas Pass, and in the Panuco 

 River at Tampico, Mexico. I have also 

 fished around the coast of Cuba and the 

 Isle of Pines. 



The tarpon is a most interesting fish to 

 study. Although a bottom-feeder, he is 

 often seen rolling along on the surface of 

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