FISHING THE PACIFIC 



LOWER CALIFORNIA 



Let us now proceed south again to start up the outside 

 of the Gulf of Lower CaHfornia and up inside the peninsula 

 of that name. Cape San Lucas is world famous and many 

 prominent anglers, led by Mr. and Mrs. Keith Spalding, 

 for many years California's outstanding fishing couple, pio- 

 neered these waters. When the first Mrs. Spalding died she 

 left a great deal of money to the American Museum of 

 Natural History of New York and also presented the insti- 

 tution with a beautiful exhibit of sailfish displayed against a 

 background representing Cape San Lucas. 



There is no place to stay at Cape San Lucas but there are 

 plenty of fish in the vicinity if you can get down there and 

 fish from a craft you can live aboard. Thirty-four miles north 

 is San Jose de Cabo, an excellent hot spot, and directly above 

 this are the Inner and Outer Gorda Banks to which many 

 American tuna clippers come to take the tuna on these well- 

 known fishing banks. 



From San Jose de Cabo the Los Frailles is about a 45 -mile 

 run and fish are taken there also. But the big name today is 

 La Paz— about 1 14 miles in a direct line from Cape San Lucas. 

 It is an interesting town and boasts seven boats. On going 

 into La Paz you cross Muertos Bay and then go into Las 

 Palmas Bay and up the channel inside of Cerralvo Island, 

 rounding the point at La Paz. Most of the La Paz boats fish 

 this channel, working out to an island to the north called 

 Espiritu Santo where there is excellent marlin fishing. About 

 5 miles directly across the channel between Cerralvo Is- 



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