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It has been the author's good fortune to fish in the great 

 majority of places where salt-water fish have been taken in 

 the Pacific Ocean and it is for this reason this book has been 

 written. This vast territory has not been touched since Va- 

 cific Game Fishing was written in 1942 and so it gives me 

 great pleasure to tell all the people who were kind enough to 

 write, that this book is now published and I hope it will meet 

 with their approval and with the approval of sportsmen and 

 fishermen the world over. I also hope that it will prove inter- 

 esting to the many people who served in the armed forces in 

 the Pacific in World War II and the Korean action. 



With the introduction of new grounds off Cabo Blanco, 

 Peru, salt-water fishing has received the biggest boom in his- 

 tory. It is the greatest thing that ever happened to any sport 

 and the results for the future of Chile as well as Peru have 

 only been scratched. 



I would advise anyone who is interested in fishing for 

 striped bass along the California coast to get a copy of Leon 

 D. Adams' new book Striped Bass Fishing in California a?id 

 Oregon, published by Pacific Books. It is an extraordinarily 

 good job. 



Due to the fact that Robert Turner, Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.'s 



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