. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME. 127 BARBLESS FISH HOOKS. Certain sportsmen's angling clubs are advocating the use of barbless hooijs for catcliing fish, arguing that it is more sportsmanlike for it gives the fish a chance for its life. Besides its being a more creditable performance, they say, to catch fish with a barbless hook, the undersized fish when returned to the water will be more apt to survive as they are hurt very little. It is in
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME. 127 BARBLESS FISH HOOKS. Certain sportsmen's angling clubs are advocating the use of barbless hooijs for catcliing fish, arguing that it is more sportsmanlike for it gives the fish a chance for its life. Besides its being a more creditable performance, they say, to catch fish with a barbless hook, the undersized fish when returned to the water will be more apt to survive as they are hurt very little. It is interesting to note here that the commercial fisheimen in fishing for long- finupd tuna, skipjack and bonito in south- ern California use principally barbless hooks. The motive in their case is not to give the fish a better chance for their life, but to enable them to catch them faster, for the barbless hook is more quickly extracted and time is thus saved when the fish are coming Fig. 41. Barbless hooks used in the capture of tuna. Photograph by II. C. Bryant. LIFE HISTORY NOTES. THE PORCUPINE AS FOOD. An animal, purely a vegetarian, that plays great havoc with gardens all through this country, is the porcupine. Sometimes, all of the garden stuff on out- lying ranches in this section is com- pletely destroyed by this pest. One of our rangers trapped a good many porcu- pines in his garden at a ranger station last summer, and he and his family used them to a considerable extent as food. I have eaten porcupine meat on several occasions during the past summer and found it to be quite palatable. Only for the fact that the meat is coarser in tex- ture, one could imagine he was eating beef—provided of course, that the porcu- pine is young. An old porcupine is the toughest chewing imaginable—Wm. S. Brown, Alturas, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance
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