Bait and Grounds 421 
never visited the grounds, I take the liberty to 
copy :— 
“There is many a man who, if he knew of it, 
would be glad to come a thousand miles to 
wrestle with a jackfish or shark or tarpon, stand- 
ing on a granite rock six miles out in the Gulf 
of Mexico. 
“Tt is strange that so few fishermen know of 
the fishing we have at Galveston. There is no 
other place in America that deep-sea fishing can 
be had for the rod and reel from a comfortable 
footing on a flat rock, many of the rocks from 
six to eight feet square, and so adjacent that you 
can follow along for a hundred yards if you wish. 
The jetties are some nine miles from the wharves, 
just far enough to keep out the pot-fishers, yet 
within an hours run for a good launch. The 
Tarpon Club is small and has only one boat, but 
it is a fine seaworthy launch, carrying a dozen 
fishermen. It leaves for the jetties every day at 
one o'clock when the weather is suitable for 
fishing, and nearly every day some of the mem- 
bers go at four o’clock in the morning and get 
back in time to doa day’s work. We have an en- 
thusiastic set of fishermen who are always glad to 
welcome the stranger within our gates, who is of 
