. American food and game fishes. A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. California White Sea-bass Victoria, Vancouver Island. It reaches a weight of 20 to So pounds, and is one of the really great game-fishes. Professor Holder says: "The season is generally May and June. Of 7 caught in one day by the writer with a i6-strand line each weighed over 50 pounds, and every fish made a play of from 15 to 30 minutes that can only be described by the term magnifi
. American food and game fishes. A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture. Fishes -- North America. California White Sea-bass Victoria, Vancouver Island. It reaches a weight of 20 to So pounds, and is one of the really great game-fishes. Professor Holder says: "The season is generally May and June. Of 7 caught in one day by the writer with a i6-strand line each weighed over 50 pounds, and every fish made a play of from 15 to 30 minutes that can only be described by the term magnificent. There is a difference in individuals, but one ^i-pound bass, taken after a 25-minute contest, I believe, gave me more pleasure than any catch I ever made. ''The fish played entirely on the surface, and I only saved it by the skill and quick movements of my boatman as the fish repeatedly rushed around the boat. This fish is a beautiful creature in bronze and old-gold tints, and is well called the Santa Catalina salmon, having a close resemblance to that fish and being its equal in every way. The equipment used is, so far as line is concerned, the same as for the tuna, though I prefer a lighter line and a lighter rod. Flying-fish or large smelt is the killing bait, trolled slowly along not 50 feet from the shore. All my catches were made in Avalon Bay not 200 feet from shore, and around the first week in ; Cynoscion nothus, which is usually called the bastard weakfish, is. a well-marked species, differing in numerous respects from the others of the genus. It occurs on our South Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and is a good food-fish. Colour, grayish silvery, thickly punctulate above and on sides to level of pectorals, then abruptly silvery, a row of dark points marking the line of division; snout and tip of lower jaw black- ish; mouth white within; lower fins white, the upper dusky. C. reticulatus, the corvina, is found from Mazatlan to Panama. It reaches a length of 3 f
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