Giant Fish of Florida 
I do not profess to know these vermin severally by name, 
but two or three pictures of some that were captured during 
my stay may be of interest. The subject of the first was, like 
most of the tribe, a cannibal, for it took another shark (though 
I do not know that.it. was of the same species) that had 
been hooked, and the two were secured by the coloured 
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“gentleman ” in the picture. 
This incident of its swallowing a fish already hooked 
reminds me of another. An angler had to return to England 
rather suddenly, but he was anxious to complete his catch of 
roo tarpon for the season. He had already caught 99, and 
but half an hour remained before his boat left. He hooked the 
hundredth, luckily enough, but it was promptly seized by a 
shark, and it still looked as if his century would not be com- 
pleted, when he very cleverly landed shark and all, with a few 
minutes to spare, and thus made up his total of tarpon. 
The end of May is the time when sharks most plague the 
tarpon fisher, and is consequently the time for shark fishing. 
The best way is to bait a large hook with a whole split fish 
made fast to a long stout line. Then you fling this well out from 
the Lighthouse Jetty, leave a good coil of slack, and make the 
end fast. Before very long, the slack line begins to creep out, 
then rushes, and you must, if the shark is a large one, call all 
the help you can muster, for the fight will be a good one. All 
hands play him from the beach, and, with a little give and take, 
he generally comes in with a run, a nasty-looking brute perhaps 
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