Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-03-16

which is part of Tampa Bay and a
beautiful fresh water lake about the
size Of Devils lake.
His farm contains about twelve acres
and extends from the lake to the bayou.
A few years ago he plated it and now
1T is covered with beautiful homes and
winter cottages. 1t lies two and half
miles from the city of ST. Petersburg
and the street cars run within a half
block of his door.
DIR. Turner, former resident of
Baraboo, has similarly located orange
farm directly across the road from Mr.
Hargrave and expects to have 1t cut up
into lots in the near future.
Tlany Middle Aged and Old.
) Peoplesare coming here from every
where. The summer population is only
about fifteen thousand but there are
now about twenty thousand tourists
here One thing that strikes a person
ss very peculiar is the great number of
middle aged and old people to be seen.
would venture to say that the average
age of all the people in st. Petersburg
at the present time would be about so
years. D. A. Lewis our host, has q
beautiful place with lots of orange,
lemon, grape fruit, mango, guava and
cherry trees. He has beautiful home
and also small cottage near the main
house in which he lived the first year
he was here and this winter Miss Leora
Lewis built the cottage which we now
occupy. There are beautiful large
mango and guava trees close by and !
every morning we are awakened by the |
singing of hooking birds. On moon
light nights they sing all night long. |
Fishing
The fishing is good enough to satisfy |
the most exacting and you can have |
most any kind you want. If you are |
out for big game you can buy a ticket |
for 81 and make trip down into the
Gulf of Mexico on boat that leaves for |
the grouper banks every morning, bait |
andia tackle furnished free.
It's about two hours ride to the fish |
ing grounds. The boat carries about |
40 people and the day D. A. Lewis and |
went it was loaded to full capacity |
with men and women. The coral reefs !
on which we fished were out of sight |
of land, and the fishing grounds were
located by castingssa lead weight filled |
with wax. Particles of material would |
adhere to the wax where 1t struck bot
tom and would thus indicate whether
it was mud, sand or coral.
, Expression Hauuts Me Still
The water was about 40 feet deep. |
Some of the fishermen were 80 anxious
to begin operations that they commenc- |
ed to cast out before we got located |
One old fellow got his line TANGLED |
up in the propeller and at first he
thought he had hooked whale. It hap
pened that his tackle was new and
made of good stuff, so good ia fact that
he either had to let go or get pulled |
overheard. The expression on his
face haunts me still. About SIS 90
worth of good tackle gone and he sup
posed fish was taking it; until later
where we saw the pole dive under the
boat and come up in pieces around the
stern. There were good many ladies
there, 30 he could not express himself
freely and it must have bean an, Jaw flu
strain on his nerves.
After we finally got located we drop
ped anchor and the fun commenced
Everyone began to get fish. The grouper
looks a good deal like cod fish and |
run in weight from 3 to so pounds. D.
A. Lewis had TIE honor of landing the |
largest one caught "a pounds, | got
S which3weighed in the aggregate 81.
lbs. We fished for about two hours and
we're back home and had our fish
cleaned before dark.
We have splendid fishing right in the
Bayou near home. We get red fish,
mango, snapper, mackerel, mullet and
trout by still fishing.
We also catch red fish and trout.
trolling behind gasoline launch. All
the sea fish are gamey and most of
them are delicious eating.
Oyster Beds