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New Florida Frontier Yields Giant Bass in Everglades Canals
Settlers flock to Okeechobee Florida as Lake Okeechobee and Everglades drainage canals boost fishing. Reports from Essie Evans and Mrs L Miller note bass up to twenty five pounds, with locals praising the area as a fishermans paradise and frontier settlement.
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New Florida Frontier
Everglade Canals
Okeechobee
Paradise
Caugh
Essie Evans
L. Miller
Bonner’s Beach
Lake Okeechobee
Florida
Crest Lake
Lake Michigan
United States
Droe - Smith
Bureau of Fisheries
Smithsonian Institution
Everglades
New River Canal
Ft Lauderdale
Commodore Afa Brook
Commodore