26 THE TARPON 



same sensation as travelling along at four miles 

 an hour and hooking near the surface, a fish 

 that immediately leaps in the air. A tarpon 

 will also jump twice as often in 8 feet of water. 



I have seen forty or more boats drifting fairly 

 close together at Boca Grande on a moonlit 

 night and consternation caused among them by 

 the sudden jumping of two or three large hooked 

 fish. 



It is a popular and lazy form of sport where 

 fish are plentiful, and as the tarpon is an elusive 

 fish and difficult to find, Boca Grande is much 

 frequented for the fish are known to be there in 

 numbers. 



To me the great charm of tarpon fishing is to 

 hunt for the fish and find them, which you can 

 do in rivers as they often swim along the sur- 

 face, or if lying on the bottom come up from 

 time to time for air. 



Fish hooked in the mouth can readily be set 

 free. Your guide is provided with a large 

 barbless release-hook which he inserts in the 

 fish's jaw and then removes the fishhook with 

 his gloved hand. 



The season for tarpon fishing in Florida is 

 from the month of May to October. 



At Aransas Pass, Texas, they fish in the Gulf 



