CHAPTER IX 
CATFISH AS SCAVENGERS 
WITH the exception of the sharks, which, vermin as they 
are, give a measure of sport under favourable conditions, 
I have now disposed of most of the really big game of the 
Florida coast waters, and it remains to draw the reader’s 
and intending visitor’s attention to the number of other 
sea-fish that on occasion give excellent sport in those latitudes. 
I have often thought that in the all-absorbing ambition for 
the record tarpon some of these humbler fish, which would 
themselves create a sensation in English waters, are too 
consistently neglected. The sharks shall receive notice 
where their low standing as vermin relegates them, at the 
end of the book. 
It may be complained, particularly by those who have 
never been on the spot, that I have passed too lightly 
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