FISHING THE PACIFIC 



good. Magdalena Bay, about 390 miles north of San Lucas, 

 is another favorite stopping-off place for fishermen. 



A great deal of commercial fishing is done in this locality. 

 The Mexicans sell fish, of course, and the tuna clippers from 

 California are constantly fishing live bait for tuna and alba- 

 core, taking ton after ton to market in the United States. 

 A trip to Cedros Island may be made by rod and reel, 

 live-bait boats running out of San Diego. These are much 

 larger than the live-bait boats that take parties out of the 

 California fishing ports and they have excellent sleeping 

 accommodations. There are also some San Diego live-bait 

 boats with sleeping accommodations making frequent trips 

 from San Diego to Guadalupe Island, which is only about 

 sixty miles down the Lower California coast. It is possible to 

 drive down to Ensenada, a distance of about thirty miles, 

 the end of a good road in Lower Cahfornia. Here there is 

 good fishing for yellowtail and bottom fish and also excellent 

 black brant shooting in winter. One may have his choice of 

 boats from a good-sized fleet. 



Among United States anglers who have visited Cape San 

 Lucas in recent years are the late Max Fleishman, Hugh 

 Chisholm, Donald Douglas, Vincent Astor, George C. 

 Thomas, Jr., Joseph D. Peeler, Dan Baker, L. W. Myers, 

 Herbert Schwabacker, John and Jo Manning and numerous 

 members of the Catalina Tuna Club. 



If you are going on a Mexican fishing trip try to get hold of 

 Lionel A. Walford's wonderful book. Game Fish of the 

 Pacific Coast. Max Fleishman underwrote this book and it is 

 one of the most entertaining volumes ever written about 

 salt-water fishing. I wish an equally good book on South 

 America and the Atlantic coast were available. I never fail 



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