SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



nightmare. There are other fish, such as 

 snapper, jackfish, grouper, kingfish, Spanish 

 mackerel, and barracouta, to be found off 

 the coast and in the rivers, and I have seen 

 bonefish for sale in the market. Sharks of 

 many varieties and of the largest kind 

 abound. 



Winter fishing for tarpon is river fishing, 

 and, in my opinion, is the most interest- 

 ing and sportsmanlike manner of fishing for 

 the grandest of sea-fish. 



Some ten years ago I was cruising in the 

 Indian River, Florida, in a house-boat, and 

 found the St. Lucie River full of tarpon. 

 The good people who live in the neighbor- 

 hood of Sewall's Point had cut the beach 

 opposite where the St. Lucie empties into 

 the Indian River, for the purpose of deepen- 

 ing the latter and providing a port that would 

 help them to develop that part of Florida. 

 It did not have quite the desired effect, for 

 Gilbert's Bar at the mouth of the inlet is 

 not a pleasant harbor to make, and the 



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