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pended skiffs and boats belonging to the members. 

 Down from this dock, which is a favorite lounging- 

 place of the members, steps lead to the float, the pri- 

 vate landing-place of the club, where the launches are 

 moored, and angling parties land and depart. Japan- 

 ese boys are in attendance. The yachts and launches 

 of the members are near at hand, and it is an easy 

 matter to see that the Tuna Club fills an important 

 nook in the lives of the sea-anglers who congregate here. 



The club has entertained many notable guests. It 

 has an arrangement with the London, England, An- 

 glers' Society for a sort of reciprocity of good-fellowship. 

 Thus, the author, as president of the Tuna Club, is an 

 honorary vice-president of the British Sea Anglers' 

 Society, and the president of the latter is an honorary 

 member of the Tuna Club, and visiting members of 

 these clubs are assured of every attention. A some- 

 what similar arrangement exists between the Tuna 

 Club and various American clubs. What this means 

 to a stranger arriving in a new place, every angler can 

 imagine. He finds friends at once in the Tuna Club, 

 whether he is from New York, Boston, London, Paris, 

 Cape Town, or Australia, as the Tuna Club has mem- 

 bers all over the world. The club admits the ladies 

 of the families of members from ten a.m. until four 

 P.M. It is an institution undoubtedly unique in the 

 world of clubs. 



The Tuna Club was founded by me in 1898, with 

 the object of establishing a high standard of sport in 

 all California. 



In 1886 rods were unknown at the islands, and the 

 one I took to Avalon in that year was looked upon by 

 Mexican Joe, the only boatman in those days, as 



