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THE GIANT FISH OF
FLORIDA

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THE GIANT FISH
OF
FLORIDA

BY
J. TURNER-TURNER


WITH 48 ILLUSTRATIONS


LONDON
C. ARTHUR PEARSON Limited
Philadelphia: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1902

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PREFACE

The sea has its big game as well as the land, and there are some ofus—the name of Mr. W. H. Grenfell, M.P., at once occurs in thisconnection—who have derived much sport from its pursuit. Whether, asMr. Grenfell and others would seem to indicate, the tunny of theMediterranean, which is identical with the tuna of American waters, mayyet be recognised as a sporting fish by British anglers has to be seen;meanwhile the coast of America, and more particularly that of Floridaand Mexico, is the recognised resort of those who angle for the biggestthat the sea has to give.

In this volume I have endeavoured to lay before fellow sportsmen at homesome of the charms of fishing for tarpon and the other rangers of theGulf. The tarpon, of course,{12} stands first; indeed, there are manyvisitors to those parts who will fish for nothing else, thus losing manyexcellent opportunities of sport on days that are too rough for them toget out on the tarpon grounds. No attempt has been made at anything inthe nature of an exhaustive list of the sea fish of Florida, which mighteasily have been gathered from one or other of the American standardworks on the subject, such as the invaluable volumes by Jordan andEvermann, published under the auspices of the United States NationalMuseum. Only fish that are likely to attract the notice of the anglerhave been figured and briefly described, and this from the sportingrather than from the natural-history point of view. Nor have I devotedmuch space to the remaining f

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