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visit all these islands in their great pilgrimages up and 

 down the coast. They winter in the vicinity of Ense- 

 nada and Magdalena. 



Their habits are similar to those of the yellowtail, 

 though they remain more in schools. I have never 

 known them to be caught in numbers on the south- 

 west side of Santa Catalina, the best ground being 

 from the east end to Avalon and from the Isthmus 

 to Ship Rock, along the kelp. I cannot wish an 

 angler along the Channel Islands, north or south, 

 from Santa Barbara to Los Coronados, better luck 

 than to hook, play, and land with three-six tackle a 

 fifty-pound white sea bass. The following are some 

 of the Tuna Club rod records of white sea bass: 



Largest White Sea Bass (Cynoscion) 



Pounds 



Edward M. Boggs, Oakland, Cal., season 1899' 58 



Wm. P. Adams, Chicago, 111., season 1903 52 



C. H. Harding, Philadelphia, Pa., season 1904 60 



E. C. Wilson, Denver, Col., season 1905 36 



*A. L. Beebe, Portland, Ore., season 1906 34 



*Arthur J. Eddy, Chicago, 111., season 1906 34 



*Mrs. E. H. Brewster, Avalon, Cal., season 1907 53 



*S. A. Barron, El Paso, Tex., season 1908 40 



*A. L. Beebe, Portland, Ore., season 1908 40 



*A. L. Beebe, Portland, Ore., season 1909 46I 



* Taken with nine-ounce rods and No. 9 lines. 



