218 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISOENCES. 



Mustang Island, -where you will 

 find a splendid hotel in the Tarpon 

 Inn, kept by Mrs. Carter and her 

 son. There you will find the best 

 tarpon fishing in the world and 

 may have a go at Spanish mackerel 

 and \)hxe fish in season, to say 

 nothing about the everlasting sport 

 on trout and red fish. 



Corpus Christi, Port Lavaca, in 

 fact anywhere on the Gulf Coast, 



from there in a day the stage will 

 take you 60 miles overland and put 

 you in the very best bass country 

 in the world. This beautiful river 

 whose waters are as clear as crystal, 

 flows through pecan bottoms for 

 many miles and in the bends and 

 rapids of this stream can be found 

 everything that delights the ang- 

 ler's heart. Great beds of water 

 cress adorn the banks of the river 



Another "Pull-the-String" View of Mitchell's Lake Trophies by the Writer; Winter 19U 



the ambitious angler will find his 

 favorite sport in the line of salt 

 water fishing. 



For black bass, chaniiel catfish, 

 sun perch, etc., no waters in the 

 world can beat our Western Tex- 

 as streams. The best of them all, 

 however, is the Johnson Fork of 

 the Llano River, which joins the 

 main stream at Junction City, in 

 Kimble County. Take the train 

 at San Antonio to Kerville and 



at every bend a luxuriant growth 

 of wild mint will be found a wel- 

 come ornament to the country 

 today, to say nothing about the 

 flavor. This stream has every- 

 thing necessary for the successful 

 brewing of a mint julep save the 

 whiskey, which article of luxury 

 can ~be easily carried by the astute 

 fisherman. 



In the winter season a pains- 

 taking hunter can find splendid 



