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sport is found a warmer fellow-feeling, greater 
hospitality, and more courteous camaraderie than 
among the gentlemen of the rod on the great 
fishing-grounds of America. 
To Dr. H. W. Howe of the city of Mexico and 
Mr. J. A. L. Waddell of Kansas City, anglers are 
indebted for information regarding the midwinter 
tarpon fishing at Tampico, Mexico, an unsigned 
and interesting paper on the subject appearing in 
Modern Mexico in May, 1901, to which I am in- 
debted for the data herewith given. Dr. Howe 
wrote me that he has hooked several tarpons here 
which he could not handle; hence, the tarpons of 
Tampico are of large size. The season is from 
November 1 to April, the time when the tarpon 
practically disappears from Florida and Texas. 
The tarpons are not only very large but are found 
in vast numbers. Some mornings during his 
visits there could be seen hundreds of fishes 
within fifteen minutes by boat from the hotel. 
Mr. Waddell in eleven days in December at 
Tampico landed twenty-four tarpons, fifty-nine 
jack-fish, and two jewfish, weighing in all thirty- 
five hundred pounds; the largest tarpon meas- 
ured six feet ten inches. In March he landed 
six tarpons here in one day. Mr. A. B. Ross in 
