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Title: Favorite fish and fishing
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Henshall, James A. (James Alexander), 1836-1925
Subjects: Fishing
Publisher: New York, The Outing publishing company
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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from such a reel, as it renders onthe slightest provocation. A leather brakesewed to one of the bars of the reel, or oneof the patented drag-handles. Is absolutelynecessary In playing a tarpon, otherwise thefingers are likely to suffer In consequence ofthe fierce rushes of the fish for freedom.A Tarpon My good friend Major-General Eustace Hill, a retired ofl^cer of the British army,whom I Initiated In tarpon fishing, declaredto me—after an experience of thirty-fiveyears in India, and ten summers in Norway,salmon fishing—that the two finest sports inthe world were pig-sticking and tarpon fish-ing, notwithstanding he has a record oftwo hundred salmon in a single season—and there you are. But the General Is oneof the strenuous type of sportsmen. Bythe way his grandfather. Admiral Keppel,the ranking oflicer of the British navy, dieda few years ago at the advanced age ofninety-four years; by a special Act of Par-liament he was continued In active serviceuntil the day of his death.128
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The Silver King During the winter months the tarpon Some of Hismay be found In the shallow water of baysof southern Florida, basking In the sun,under the mangroves. In such situationsmany are speared, or grained, as It Iscalled by native fishermen. But during thesummer they may be seen by hundreds roll-ing and playing on the surface, at any ofthe deep Inlets of either coast. At thistime the angler, by trolling or surface fish-ing, may get scores of strikes In an hour,but as to landing them—that Is anotherfish story. The tarpon breeds In the West Indies Breedingand Central America, but not, I believe. InFlorida. At all events, as a collector offishes I have combed the shores and riversof Florida, with a fine-meshed seine, fromTItusvIlle on the east coast to Tampa onthe west coast, but never found a tarpon ofless size than a foot In length. If theybreed In the bays or rivers I certainlywould have found some smaller ones. Late In the winter of 1892, when en- a Tussle withgaged In the p

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