SOME FISH AND SOME FISHING 



warmer, you can see them, and can fish for 

 them with some hope of success. 



It gives me more satisfaction to kill one 

 tarpon in January than ten in the month 

 of May, when they are plentiful. I troll 

 from a rowboat with a live silver mullet 

 hooked through the head. If the hook is 

 properly placed and the mullet gently 

 handled, it will live for hours. I have fished 

 in this manner for several winters, killing 

 a number of fish. The largest two were 187 

 pounds, caught on Jan. 26, and 165 pounds, 

 on Feb. 23. 



The moment the fish strikes and feels the 

 hook, he jumps first to one side of the river 

 and then to the other, for the rivers are not 

 wide, and then comes straight toward your 

 boat, fighting all the time. It is then that 

 you generally lose him, for he will jump 

 half out of the water beside the boat when 

 your line is straight up and down. It must 

 be a well-hooked fish that does not then 

 shake the hook free. 



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