It Is Not All of Fishing to 
Fish 
(Continued from page 133) 
in the gullet. Then again, there will 
be a dozen or more strikes at a mov- 
ing bait to one lying still on the bot- 
tom. During April the Spanish mack- 
erel is running through the inlets and 
passes to the land-locked bays, often 
accompanied by the sea-trout (spotted 
weakfish). Both fishes are surface 
feeders and take either fly or bait 
eagerly. They run in schools at this 
season, and are readily seen as they 
plow along the surface causing ripples 
that shine and sparkle in the bright 
sunlight. The fishing at this time is 
practiced from wharves and piers, or 
from the sandspits or points of inlets. 
The long piers at Port Tampa and 
St. Petersburg are favorite localities. 
The fishing is best on the flood tide, 
but often on the last of the ebb. No 
special directions are needed except 
to keep the bait in constant motion 
on the surface, the fish will do the 
rest. Both are fine game-fishes, and 
the angler will have all he can well 
attend to with one bending and strain- 
ing his fly-rod. A single fly is suffi- 
cient, one with some gilt or tinsel on 
the body, as the silver doctor. Live 
bait, as pilchard or anchovy, will in- 
sure success, or a metal or small bone 
squid or spinner may be used with 
equal success. For obvious reasons I 
always preferred fishing from the 
point of an inlet, or from a_ boat 
moored alongside a wharf. 
Among the many bay fishes that may 
be taken with fly or bait or artificial 
lures may be mentioned rovallia or 
snooks, cavalli, gray or mangrove 
snappers, redfish or channel bass, all 
good game-fishes, with many others. 
Wherever barnacles, bed oysters or 
coon oysters abound, will be found 
sheepshead, drum, croakers, Bermuda 
chub, etc. These fishes will suit the 
lazy angler who loves to sit on a wharf 
or in a boat, and with fiddler-crabs 
and beach fleas lure these free-biting 
species that never tire of nibbling off 
and crunching his bait with their 
strong teeth, and whose way of re- 
sistance when hooked is to bore down- 
ward and forcefully for the bottom. 
Nor is this all. Even the handliner 
is amply provided for, and in a way 
that his fondest anticipation and most 
expectant fancy never dreamed of. 
Key West will prove to be the Elysium 
and Heart’s Desire of his most ex- 
alted piscatorial ambition. With the 
exception of bread, fruit and vege- 
tables the diet of the Key West folk 
consists almost entirely of fish, and 
these are supplied freshly caught 
every day, and at a small cost. A 
fleet of small sloops called ‘smackees” 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
proceed daily to the outer reefs and 
channels, where the fish are caught 
with handlines and deposited in a 
“well” placed amidship, and carried 
alive and kicking to the fish wharf, 
where they are killed, cleaned, strung 
on palm-leaf fiber and delivered to the 
customer. 
The handliner can always proceed 
to the fishing grounds with one of the 
Bahaman boatmen, white or colored, 
and I would advise him to choose one 
of the latter as more active, more pro- 
ficient and more attentive and oblig- 
ing, and moreover, with a good stock 
of sea lore and anecdote, and always 
a good sailor and fisherman. The 
smackee is anchored over a reef or 
near a coralline ledge and the fishing 
begins ad libitum and ad infinitum. 
The bait is ready to hand, in the holes 
and crevices of the rocks, from which 
it is taken with a two-prong spear. It 
is the sea-crawfish or spiny lobster, 
and resembles the northern lobster ex- 
cept for the absence of the two large 
claws. It is broken into small pieces 
and is a most killing bait. There is 
usually a sponge glass, a wooden pail 
with a glass bottom,-in the boat, and 
by immersing the bottom beneath the 
surface the angler can view his quarry 
at home as they swim lazily amid the 
sea-fronds, sea-feathers, sea-fans and 
other gorgeous forms of marine flora. 
Thus he can pick out his particular 
variety, and perhaps fool it. 
And so, the boat rocks gently to the 
swell of the tides, with the ever pres- 
ent company of the terns, gulls and 
kitty-wakes as they circle around 
whistling, and screaming, while the 
man-o’-war hawks or frigate pelicans, 
with a magnificent spread of wings, 
ten feet from tip to tip, soar grace- 
fully well upward to the zenith. The 
fishes are legion in numbers, and of 
every hue of the prism, with beauti- 
ful markings of stripes, spots and 
bars, with fins of gorgeous tints. They 
are not so choice in names as hogfish, 
pigfish, porkfish, muttonfish, margate 
fish, snappers of every degree as dog, 
schoolmaster, glass-eye, lane, yellow 
tails, squirrelfish, porgies of many 
kinds, and last but not the least are 
the “grunts,” the favorite breakfast 
fish of the Key West population, white, 
brown, yellow and black. 
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