Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . BARRACOUTA. HAMMERHEAD SHARKSixteen feet long TARPON FISHING 103 The gentle current of the Southern riversis of httle assistance, even if you are for-tunate enough to jump your jSsh whentrolHng against it. The rivers are deep,and the waters are dyed by the cypressroots and fringed with white Hhes. Thebanks are hned with cabbage-plams anddeciduous trees, which in January arejust budding, spring then beginning alongthese lovely rivers so little known totourists in Florida. I do most of my fishing with the assist-ance of a launch. W
Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold . BARRACOUTA. HAMMERHEAD SHARKSixteen feet long TARPON FISHING 103 The gentle current of the Southern riversis of httle assistance, even if you are for-tunate enough to jump your jSsh whentrolHng against it. The rivers are deep,and the waters are dyed by the cypressroots and fringed with white Hhes. Thebanks are hned with cabbage-plams anddeciduous trees, which in January arejust budding, spring then beginning alongthese lovely rivers so little known totourists in Florida. I do most of my fishing with the assist-ance of a launch. With the advent ofthe automobile, a new way of seeing theworld was discovered for the tourist, andyears of keen pleasure offered to those wholove travel. The coming of the motor-boathas done the same for fishing. I remember being surprised some yearsago at Captiva Pass by the complaintsmade about one fisherman, because, cruis-ing about in a launch near where we werefishing, he frightened the fish with hispropeller, and so drove them out to sea. 104 SPORT ON LAND AND WATER
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