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Fishing 
A Practical Book on the Popular Fresh 
water Game Fish, the Tackle Necessary and 
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of fire-works, rockets, sea-devils and set 
pieces, the effect of which was heightened 
by the reflection on the surface of the 
water. As I glanced at the young lady 
she was staring open-eyed and open- 
mouthed in wonder and amazement at 
the unequalled sight. 
Hilda, I said, “how does'this com- 
pare with Key West?” 
“Oh its simply glorious,” she ex- 
claimed, “it is the nearest to Heaven of 
anything I have ever dreamed of; and if 
I only had some fried grunts for break- 
fast I would be supremely and superla- 
tively happy!” 
W ITHOUT doubt the finest salt 
water fishing in the world is to 
be found between Biscayne Bay 
and Key West in Hawk Channel, be- 
tween the keys and the outlying reefs 
and in the passes and inlets between the 
various keys from Big Angel-fish creek 
to Bahia Honda. Trolling in Hawk 
Channel for king-fish, mackerel, bonito 
and amber-jack is good sport with a fair 
sailing breeze, but is not to be compared 
with rod fishing in the passes and creeks, 
and even this is not to be mentioned on 
the same day unless the fishes sought are 
the bonefish and ladyfish. These in- 
comparable game-fishes are cosmopolitan, 
inhabiting the warm seas of both con- 
tinents. 
At first sight they resemble each other 
in their long, spindle-shape bodies and 
bright silvery appearance, and are often 
confounded on this account. However, 
they are readily distinguished by the 
shape of their mouths, that of the lady- 
fish being small and slightly underneath 
with an overhanding pig-like snout, 
while the lips or jaws of the bonefish 
are terminal, that is, they meet in front 
like most fishes. They belong to differ- 
ent families though both are allied to the 
herring tribe. The feeding grounds of 
both fishes are on the grassy flats and 
sandy shoals inside of the keys, at high 
tide. Small fish, as anchovies, sea-craw- 
fish or fiddler crabs are the best baits 
for bonefish, and ladyfish as well, though 
the latter, having a smaller mouth, beach 
fleas or the meat of the beautiful little 
pompano shell are perhaps better. The 
two fish when hooked bound into the air 
at once, and with a whirling motion, at 
times like a revolving wheel. They keep , 
up the fight, beneath the water, on the 
surface and in the air, until completely 
exhausted. We took a seven-foot tarpon 
at Indian River Inlet, and a jewfish at 
Jupiter Light weighing 340 pounds, but 
neither gave as much real angling sport 
as the tarpon’s little brother the bonefish, 
or her grace the ladyfish, though their 
weights did not exceed ten pounds. 
_ We sailed across Florida Bay, some 
sixty miles, from Key West to Cape 
Sable, and northward up the Gulf coast 
to Cedar Key. We stopped a day or two 
at Tampa, which was then a small town 
with no railroad, and with but a few 
feet of water in the harbor, cargoes be- 
ing lightered on barges from Gadsden 
Point, some ten miles below. St. Peters- 
burg, at the foot of the bay, had but four 
houses at that time, whereas there are 
now said to be a thousand hotels and 
