Identifier: sportonlandwater01gris (find matches)
Title: Sport on land and water : recollections of Frank Gray Griswold
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, F. Gray (Frank Gray), 1854-1937
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting Fishing Horse racing
Publisher: (Norwood, Mass.) : Privately printed (The Plimpton Press)
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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D AND WATER for Cuban waters and cruised along thenorthern coast of Cuba, looking for tarpon.I found a lovely river, called the Zaramara-guanacan, a tiny river for such a long name,but full of tarpon of all sizes. In placesit is very narrow, and its shores are thicklycovered with mangroves. The water isdeep, and the fish work up and down theriver on the tide. While there I jumpedfifty-two tarpon, and saved only nine. Iwas not sorry to lose any of the fish thatI had played, for they are so game that itis always painful to gaff them. In thiscase it was most amusing to lose thefti, forthe third jump would generally land themhigh up in the overhanging branches ofthe mangroves, through which they wouldcrash into the deep waters below, leavingmy tackle entangled in the bushes. The result of river fishing does not meana large bag. It is quick work, for you mustnot give the fish any slack, a difiicult thingto avoid, as you have no tide in your favor,as in pass fishing, to keep your fine taut.
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THE ZARA RIVER, CUBAWhere the hooked tarpon jump into the trees

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