that the tackle 
required for 
their capture 
must vary ac- 
cordingly and 
considerably. I 
have found, 
however, that 
three rods, 
with corre 
sponding reels, 
if of the best 
quality, will be 
all sufficient to 
cope with any 
of the fishes 
to be named. 
These are the 
“tarpon rod” of 
8 feet and 12 
ounces for tar- 
pon, jewfish, 
sailfish, swordfish and sharks of sev- 
eral species. Such a rod should be 
made of split-bamboo or greenhart. 
For bay, or brackish-water species, as 
a mangrove snapper of three pounds 
to channel bass, grouper or amber- 
jack of thirty, the Henshall “Little 
Giant” rod of 7% feet and 9 ounces, 
ash and lancewood is sufficient, re- 
liable and trustworthy. A heavy fly- 
rod, 10 feet and 8 ounces, is 
well adapted for fly-flshing for 
Spanish mackerel, sea-trout, or 
any of the bay fishes. Braided 
linen lines are to be preferred 
to silk, as the latter soon rot 
in salt water. 
In making collections of mu- 
seum specimens, or for scien- 
tific examination, other means 
are often employed. I was once 
cruising in Barnes Sound, east 
of Cape Sable, and had for pi- 
lot Captain Bill Pent, of Key 
West, who was fully acquainted 
with the numerous mud flats 
and sand shoals of those shal- 
low waters. Our experiences, 
as might be imagined, were 
both novel and variable. After sein- 
ing the coves and shores for specimens 
of the smaller fishes we would give our 
attention to those of larger growth in- 
cluding such jumbos as barracuda, tar- 
pon, jewfish and sawfish. Some of 
these were taken with rod and line, 
but other means were resorted to for 
the largest ones. 
ENT was an expert in the use of 
the “grains,” a two-prong spear 
much employed in Florida. It has a 
long and strong line attached to the 
double spear, to which is fitted a long 
handle in its socket for throwing, 
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Sun-bathed palms along the beach 
which becomes detached when a fish 
is struck and the quarry is held by the 
line until landed. Standing in the bow 
of the dory, which I would paddle 
slowly and cautiously up to the fringe 
of mangroves along the shore, Pent 
would hurl the grains twenty, thirty, 
or even fifty feet, and seldom fail to 
plant the barbs firmly in the back of 
a huge fish as it lay sunning itself 
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under the bushes—then there was 
something doing for five or ten min- 
utes. 
The largest barracuda captured mea- 
sured six and a half feet, the largest 
tarpon seven and a quarter, an im- 
mense sawfish nineteen and a man- 
eating shark fifteen feet. But the live- 
liest tussle we had was with a devil- 
fish of moderate dimensions, eight feet 
across the winglike pectoral fins—lI 
have seen them fully twenty feet. 
Following the lead of Victor Hugo the 
octopus is often wrongly termed “devil 
fish,” but this name rightly belongs 
to the largest of the ray family, 

pen. 
Manta birostris,. 
The flounder. 
ing and strug- 
gling of one of 
these aquatic 
giants wag 
something to be 
remembered, 
while the erratic 
pitching and 
lunging of the 
dory as it fol- 
lowed the lead 
of the finny 
motor was, to 
say the least, 
exciting. These 
large fish were 
towed ashore, 
killed outright, 
and dissected, in 
order to ascer- 
tain something in relation to their diet 
and time of spawning. 
NE day we saw a porpoise in very 
shallow water playing with her 
two calves, which were, apparently, 
about three feet long, and the water 
scarcely covered them. Being some- 
what curious as to the result, I took the 
rifle and sent a bullet ricocheting across 
the water just behind her. In 
great alarm she gathered a calf 
under each flipper, and the way 
she made the water fly with the 
flukes of her tail propeller in 
her eagerness to reach deeper 
water was amusing but not the 
less remarkable. I could ob- 
serve her plainly for a hundred 
yards, and when at last she dis- 
appeared in deep water she was 
still hugging her twins. Her 
maternal solicitude was really 
touching. 
Once at Mullet Key, the quar- 
antine station in Tampa Bay, a 
man shot into a drove of por- 
poises, and one was left in the 
agony of a death struggle. I 
procured a boat and towed it ashore, 
but it was then quite dead. It was a 
female, and I suspected it was gravid. 
I performed the Caesarian operation 
and found a single baby porpoise 
about two feet in length. It was a 
beautiful creature, the upper half be- 
ing pale gray and the lower half a 
fine rose pink. It was sent with other 
specimens to Washington where a 
beautiful cast was made of it. 
NOTHER day while sailing in 
Barnes Sound we came up with 
three sea-cows, or manatees, feeding. 
on an aquatic plant resembling eel 
