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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 22, 1910. 
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“They all say it is the gamiest fish of its size 
in existence. I have never seen any fish jump 
so high out of the _ water nor fight against 
capture so long. Compared with it the tarpon 
is as sluggish as a mud turtle and trout, bass 
and salmon are meek and willing captives. 
“I have caught these fish a few times myself 
and it was certainly exhausting exercise. On 
one occasion last winter the buzz of my reel 
rose to a screech and my fingers were blistered 
as though by fire where I happened to touch 
the line. It took me a good half hour, but I 
got the fish in at last and entirely without as¬ 
sistance. As it was much too bony to eat we 
took it off the hook and gave it its liberty at 
once. 
“The mullet is another gamey fish, though it 
is next to impossible to make it take a fly. 
The best way to catch these fish is to take them 
when they have their mouths lifted to the sur¬ 
face of the water sucking in floating scum. 
Then you have to cast your fly in such a way 
that it will hook them in their little sucker 
mouths. Once they are hooked they will fight. 
“Mangrove snappers like wooded banks in 
deep water where they will be found hiding 
under sunken logs. They are not as a rule 
tempted by a fly, yet when the spirit moves 
them they dash for it greedily. 
“The sea trout is another fish we see a good 
deal of on the Florida coast. These fish stay 
around oyster beds and coral reefs, but they 
usually can be enticed away by a bright colored 
fly. The swimming bladders of these fish are 
very large and make delicious eating when prop¬ 
erly cooked. 
“Some days all these fish have to be looked 
for, and none of them is easily found. Then 
again they appear to come in mixed schools 
and all about equally ready to take the fly. One 
day last winter at Little Gasparilly Pass my 
husband’s score include one baby tar-pon, three 
channel bass, two sea trout, seven Spanish 
mackerel, five cavallies and twenty ladyfish. 
The mackerel and the baby tarpon were kept 
for the table and all the others returned to the 
water. 
“For a person who likes fishing and can’t 
wait until the spring the western coast of 
Florida is the place to go at this season of the 
year. As for clothes, wear bathing suits more 
than any other costumes. It is the short 
trousers and short skirt and the loose fit that 
makes the bathing suit so comfortable for fly¬ 
fishing.” 
THE RULING PASSION. 
The anglers of Paris are more than ever 
proven enthusiasts. In the full and graphic ac¬ 
counts of the Paris floods which have occupied 
so many columns of the daily papers one little 
paragraph may well have escaped attention. But 
it was not without piquancy. It described how 
certain zealous anglers were to be found plying 
their art undismayed amid the waste of waters. 
Some remonstrance seems to have passed; the 
reply was that there was nothing else to do. 
But it looks as though the ruling passion, which 
Mr. Gwynn has called amabilis insania, ruled 
even in that time of stress. Si fractus illabatur 
orbis —it is historic that anglers have ever pre¬ 
served a calm mind in difficult circumstances so 
long as they could still be fishing. In our own 
land there have never lacked men who, as an¬ 
other recent author has put it, “walked serenely 
beside the quiet rivers of England while arms 
clashed, kingdoms reeled, theologians wrangled, 
churches rose and fell, laws were enacted and 
repealed, hopes, rebellions, sciences, heresies, 
fears, coaches, horticulture, highwaymen, wits, 
puritans and beaux made history for us.” It is 
a great tribute to the attractions of the gentle 
art that this should be the case as, to judge 
from old angling literature and its alootness 
from the great world’s affairs, it undoubtedly 
has been.—Field. 
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