. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. 83 always been excellent, and is probably so still, although the shadfishers, who of late years have been using a seine near Lake Mun-roe, have injured the fishing to some extent. Bass have been takenfrom Lake Jessop which weighed over thirteen pounds, and there isa record of one being caught in a small lake in Northern Floridawhich weighed nineteen pounds. Of course these are the Large-mouthed Black Bass, and not its Northern congener, the small-mouthedspecies. The S
. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . HUNTING GROUNDS OF FLORIDA. 83 always been excellent, and is probably so still, although the shadfishers, who of late years have been using a seine near Lake Mun-roe, have injured the fishing to some extent. Bass have been takenfrom Lake Jessop which weighed over thirteen pounds, and there isa record of one being caught in a small lake in Northern Floridawhich weighed nineteen pounds. Of course these are the Large-mouthed Black Bass, and not its Northern congener, the small-mouthedspecies. The St. Johns River is usually navigable as far as Salt Lake, butabove that it is often choked with floating water plants. Occasion-ally a small boat can go nearly to Lake Washington, but beyond. ROBIN AND PRINCE. Lake Poinset it is difficult to force a passage through the waterplants, which are so rarely disturbed that they grow in a mass verydifficult to penetrate. Above Lake Jessop, on the prairies bordering the river, snipeshooting is particularly good at some seasons, and all through thecountry between St. Johns River and the Indian River quail andsnipe are abundant in the season. A few duck« may nearly always 84 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. be found along the St. Johns River and in and about the small lakeswhich abound in the interior. Following down the coast from Jacksonville, we come to the well-known shooting grounds near Oak Hill, although, as I have re-marked before, any one desiring to simply hunt quail and snipe mayget fair sport at almost any of the small towns on the line of theroad. At Oak Hill there is a small hotel kept by Frank Sams, who isalso the proprietor of the hotel at New Smyrna. Oak Hill is situated at the head of the Indian River,and hne duck s
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