The Tarpon 245 
The tarpon is found all along the coast of 
Texas, but the centre of interest is Aransas Pass, 
a narrow cut between St. Joseph’s and Mustang. 
islands, eight miles from the mainland. On the 
former stands the fine club-house of the Tar- 
pon Club, whose hospitality I enjoyed through 
the courtesy of Judge A. W. Houston, its vice- 
president, a devoted tarpon angler of San Antonio. 
On Mustang Island is the little town of Tarpon 
and its one hotel, Tarpon Inn, where the angler 
will find excellent entertainment, good boatmen, 
and tackle, if perchance he is without it. Aransas 
Pass is reached from New York or California vza 
San Antonio, the Sunset Route being the most 
direct in either case. At San Antonio the Aran- 
sas Pass road in a few hours takes one to Rock- 
port, from which there is a daily mail-boat down 
the fine bay of Aransas fifteen miles, to the 
Tarpon Club or Tarpon Inn. The fishing sea- 
son here is from April to December, and possibly 
the angler would find it cooler in October, when, 
I was informed, the fish are in the inner Pass; 
but I found the conditions excellent in August, a 
cool breeze blowing night and day and the fish 
biting. I fell into the hands of one Mateo Bru- 
jen, one of the many skilled boatmen here, and 
