Game Fishes of the Colonies 399 
available to anglers would doubtless take its place 
with the tarpon, tuna, and other big game of un- 
doubted standing. 
So far as the angler is concerned, our new 
colony Porto Rico presents a field that can, as 
regards game, be compared to southern Florida, 
the environment being more tropical and charm- 
ing; but the conditions for fishing are in many 
- respects different and vastly inferior. Porto Rico 
is about fifteen hundred miles from New York, 
or it can be reached by train to Florida and boat 
to Key West or Havana. It has a coast line of 
three hundred and sixty miles, faces the north 
bravely, and while tropical, is really cooler than 
any other island of the group. Frederic A. 
Ober has explored its waters and mountains 
and painted its charms perhaps more vividly than 
any other American. The island is deficient in 
good harbors, San Juan being the best one on the 
north, about which some good fishing is to be 
had; to the westward are found Puerto Real de 
Cabo Rojo, Afiasco, Rincon, Aguadilla, and others 
available for the angler. On the south side are 
Ponce, Jobos, Guanica, and many bays and inlets 
in which the angler with North American tackle 
will find solace and amusement. There is one 
