The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pasttimes 1895-08: Vol 1 Iss 1 (1895)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 86
TARPON-FISHING IN FLORIDA 79 paid no attention, when suddenly my reel began to hum as the line for a moment was pulled out at enormous speed. I had only time to drop the pipe and make a faint effort to grasp my rod when some fifty yards away an immense silvery fish sprang into the air, shook his _… … fully watching the line ; but all in vain. Often just in this way the angler misses his only opportunity for that day or week, and the next tarpon that comes along will find him again either occupied with a book or dozing. ‘These coin- cidences happen so frequently, one is almost persuaded that the…
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