Giant Fish of Florida 
Boca Grand are fully occupied in procuring sufficient mullet to 
provide bait for the anglers. Thirty fishers would require about 
150 mullet a day. It is, therefore, scarcely surprising to hear 
that mullet are seriously decreasing in numbers. I very much 
doubt whether several other fish would not produce equally 
killing baits. I can answer for the moon fish and its allies, also 
the devil-fish and rays in general, whose milky-white under 
sides were tried with success. 
SHARKS AND SHARK-FISHING 
I conclude this little book with a few notes on sharks and 
on bird life on that coast. Shark-fishing can now and then be 
very good fun, although the fish are vermin. After all, we do 
not eat tarpon, and the saw of the sawfish makes as good a 
trophy as the scale of the great herring. I am not, of course, 
for one moment comparing the one fish or fishing with the 
other, but on days when it is too rough to get afloat, or when 
the tide does not serve, :t is better to catch great sharks from 
the beach or pier than to loaf on shore doing nothing. 
Having named the sawfish (Pristis pectinatus), I will start 
off with the picture of. a fine specimen, measuring 18 feet, 
which was taken on a night-line set for sharks. It moves slowly 
and prowls on the bottom, close in shore, for food. A sucking 
fish was still adhering to this one when caught. For all its 
shark-like appearance, the sawfish is in reality one of that 
kindred group, the rays, of which some pictures have already 
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